Survey Data
Reg No
50080875
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1875 - 1885
Coordinates
314851, 232709
Date Recorded
02/12/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Terrace of four double-pile split-level two-bay two-storey houses, built c.1880, each having full-height flat-roofed canted bay windows to front (west) elevation, and lower two-storey rear (east) elevation with single-storey returns. M-profile pitched slate and artificial slate roofs having red brick chimneystacks with clay pots, cast-iron rainwater goods and moulded red brick eaves course. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond having chamfered yellow brick plinth course. Segmental-headed window openings with polychrome voussoirs, cut granite sills, one-over-one pane timber sash windows and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed porch openings having polychrome voussoirs and chamfered brick reveals. Recessed square-headed door openings with timber panelled door, sidelights and overlights, with some cast-iron bootscrapes. Tiled paths. Front gardens enclosed by cast-iron railings on cut granite plinths, with matching pedestrian gates.
Appraisal
This area was developed by private developers building small groups of houses at a time, and the proceeds from one group were used to finance the construction of the next section of terrace. As a result, there are pleasing variations in a street of stylistically similar houses. Bay windows enliven the terrace, while the palette of materials is shared with its neighbours, creating coherence and continuity in the streetscape. Much historic fabric is retained, including timber doorcases, timber sash windows and decorative ironwork. The construction of new residential streets in this area coincided with the immigration of Jewish communities fleeing pogroms in Europe in the late nineteenth century, and the area became known as Little Jerusalem. The 1901 census indicates numerous Jewish families of Russian origin living on Raymond Street, mostly involved in the drapery trade, and the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 notes several 'hebrah' or minor synagogues on neighbouring streets.