Survey Data
Reg No
50110421
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1805 - 1825
Coordinates
315598, 232901
Date Recorded
22/07/2017
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay three-storey former house, built c. 1815, having return to rear (west) elevation and recent shopfront to front (east) elevation. Now in use as shop with offices over. M-profile roof, hipped to south, partially hidden behind brown brick parapet having cut granite coping. Rendered chimneystacks. Brown brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls to front. Rendered walls to rear. Square-headed window openings, with granite sills, raised render reveals, one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Some timber panelled shutters visible to interior. Recent shopfront and door opening.
Appraisal
Surrounded by recent development, this house retains its early form and character, enhanced by the retention salient features such as early windows. The patina of age displayed on the early nineteenth century brick facade adds interest to the streetscape. According to Casey (2005) 'Camden Street came into being in 1778, named after Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden', however much of the street was rebuilt in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.