Survey Data
Reg No
50110333
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1845 - 1865
Coordinates
315471, 232928
Date Recorded
11/05/2017
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c. 1855, as one of terrace of eleven. Return to rear elevation. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks, having terracotta pots, behind parapet with cut granite coping. Brown brick, laid in Flemish bond, to front (south) elevation, having cut granite plinth course over lined-and-ruled rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and rendered reveals, mixed six-over-six pane and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash and fixed pane windows. Some timber panelled shutters visible to interior. Elliptical-headed door opening to front, with moulded render surround. Timber and stucco doorcase comprising panelled pilasters, scrolled consoles having anthemion leaf detail supporting stepped cornice. Leaded fanlight. Timber panelled door with brass fittings. Shared granite steps having cast-iron bootscrape to platform, wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron collars. Square-headed door openings to basement with timber panelled doors. Cast-iron gate and matching railings on granite-capped rendered plinth wall enclosing yard to front.
Appraisal
A well-proportioned house retaining historic features including a well-executed doorcase and timber sliding sash windows. Its fine railings are testament to the quality of Victorian mass-produced ironwork, and add to both the setting of the house and the character to the streetscape. Built for the growing middle class, its classically-influenced style denoted respectability. Up to the early 1840s the area that now comprises Grantham Street was still largely greenfield. However suburb development soon followed, and P. Monks was building on the street in the late 1850s. In 1862, Thom's Almanac noted that a number of houses were still being built on the street at the time. It also listed a broad range of residents including a professor of music, secretary of Army Medical Board, toothbrush maker, manufacturer, and curate.