Survey Data
Reg No
50910008
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Building misc
In Use As
Apartment/flat (purpose-built)
Date
1885 - 1905
Coordinates
315294, 233962
Date Recorded
26/08/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay four-storey commercial building, built c. 1895 as part of group of three, with retail unit to ground floor having original shopfront. Pitched roof concealed behind balustraded parapet with moulded brick coping and terminated by red brick end-piers. Red brick chimneystack to south (rear), parapet gutters and recessed uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered and moulded platband above top floor openings, surmounted by moulded eaves cornice. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond with rendered quoins to east and west ends. Square-headed window openings, those of end bays being narrower, with brick voussoirs, granite sills and replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Shopfront comprising central square-headed door opening flanked by square-headed display windows. Square-headed door opening (serving upper floors), to east, having six-panel timber door with timber pediment and modern metal grille. Painted stall-risers, decorative transom-lights and awnings to shopfront. Ground floor framed by painted masonry pilasters with swan's-neck capitals rising over timber fascia and moulded cornice.
Appraisal
A commercial building, part of a terrace of three (Nos. 9-11), the combination of red brick and rendered detailing provides colour and textural variation to the principal elevations. Despite some loss of historic fabric, the retention of elements of the traditional shopfront across each part of the terrace adds interest and significance. The form and scale of the cohesive group contribute to the architectural character of the streetscape on the eastern approach to Christchurch Cathedral. Lord Edward Street was opened in 1886 to provide a more direct route between Dame Street and Christchurch Place. Building plots were offered for sale in the following year with strict obligations on the owners to construct warehouse-type buildings in subsequent years.