Survey Data
Reg No
50080900
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1875 - 1885
Coordinates
315084, 232881
Date Recorded
04/11/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Terrace of five two-bay two-storey houses, built c.1880, having returns to rear. Pitched slate and artificial slate roofs, with red and black brick chimneystacks having red brick cornices, and chamfered red brick eaves course. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to front (north) elevation having rendered plinth course. Rendered walls to rear, east and west elevations. Square-headed window openings having black brick voussoirs, granite sills, some patent reveals, two-over-two pane timber sash windows and replacement uPVC windows. Segmental-headed door openings having black brick voussoirs, plain fanlights, frieze supported by foliate brackets to door surrounds, and timber panelled doors. Front gardens enclosed by cast-iron railings on cut granite plinths.
Appraisal
The streets in this area were built by private developers in groups of as few as two or three, leading to a lively and attractive variation in the decorative finishes of houses built in similar materials. The front garden boundaries remain intact, maintaining the early suburban character of the street. Early fabric is retained, including timber doorcases, timber sash windows and cast-iron railings .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.