Survey Data
Reg No
50130273
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Saint Alban's Terrace
Original Use
House
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1850 - 1870
Coordinates
314299, 235602
Date Recorded
19/06/2018
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey former house over raised basement, built c. 1860 as one of similar terrace of three with gardens to front, having return to rear (north) elevation. Now in use as apartments. M-profile pitched roof with rendered chimneystacks having clay pots to west end, hidden behind red brick parapet with granite cornice. Red brick walling to upper floors, laid in Flemish bond over cut masonry plinth course with ruled-and-lined rendered walls to basement to front (south) elevation; rendered walls to rear. Square-headed window openings with masonry sills and replacement aluminium windows. Round-headed principal doorway with raised rendered reveals, carved timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters with plain brackets supporting dentillated frieze and cornice, plain fanlight, timber panelled door, and flight of ten concrete(d) steps and platform, shared with building to east, having cast-iron handrail to west side; square-headed doorway to basement with rendered reveals. Concrete path having granite paviors to front. Decorative cast-iron railings to front boundary on granite plinth, with cast-iron pedestrian gate having ornate detailing to piers.
Appraisal
This well-built house is part of a terraced group of three mid-nineteenth-century houses with similar parapet heights and fenestration patterns. Its restrained frontage is ornamented by a granite cornice and decorative doorcase. The cast-iron railings provide a sense of enclosure separating it from the adjacent road. The North Circular Road was laid out in the 1780s to create a convenient approach to the city. The housing along this thoroughfare developed slowly over the next century, predominantly consisting of small terraced groups.