Survey Data
Reg No
50080897
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1875 - 1885
Coordinates
315120, 232911
Date Recorded
04/11/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Terrace of seventeen double-pile two-bay single-storey houses, built c.1880, having canted bay window to front (south) elevation of no.26, and recent bay windows to no. 13 and no.14. M-profile pitched slate and artificial slate roofs having red and yellow brick chimneystacks, and corbelled yellow brick eaves course. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to front (south) elevation. Rendered walls to east, west and rear elevations. Square-headed window openings having yellow brick voussoirs. Segmental-headed window openings with black brick voussoirs to bay window of no.26. One-over-one timber sash windows and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door openings having yellow brick voussoirs, with black brick voussoirs to no.26, plain fanlights, friezes supported by fluted brackets to door surrounds, timber panelled doors and cut granite steps. Front areas enclosed by cast-iron railings on cut granite plinths.
Appraisal
The repetition of the same house type with minor variations gives a pleasing coherence to the streetscape. The decorative door surrounds and generous window proportion bring a sense of grandeur to these otherwise modest houses. The front garden boundaries remain intact, maintaining the early suburban character of the street. 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 Lombard Street West, and the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 notes a 'hebrah' or minor synagogue on the street. This is one of many streets in the area referred to in James Joyce's Ulysses, as a former home of Leopold and Molly Bloom.