Survey Data
Reg No
50110431
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
Hostel (charitable)
Date
1770 - 1790
Coordinates
315749, 232728
Date Recorded
01/06/2017
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay three-storey former house, built c. 1780, with shopfront to front (east) elevation. Now in use as hostel. Hipped roof, having brick chimneystacks and clay pots. Rendered walls, remnant of painted sign to front. Square-headed window openings with masonry sills. Replacement windows. Timber shopfront comprising panelled pilasters with corbels supporting fascia. Square-headed display window with transom lights on rendered riser, square-headed door opening having plain overlight and replacement door. Square-headed door opening incorporated into shopfront, with carved cornice, overlight and timber panelled door.
Appraisal
This building is one of only a small number of eighteenth-century houses that survive on Charlemont Street. A tall timber shopfront was added to the classically proportioned façade in the late nineteenth century. Charlemont Street, the old road to Cullenswood, was developed in the late eighteenth century. It was named for James Caufield, 1st Earl Charlemont, who was among its early developers.