Survey Data
Reg No
50920010
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Shop/retail outlet
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1895 - 1915
Coordinates
315910, 233678
Date Recorded
22/09/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay four-storey commercial building, built c. 1905, with recent shopfront spanning ground floor. M-profile slate roof, hipped to south of rear pile only and set behind red brick parapet wall with cogged brick course, brick brackets to either end and chamfered granite coping. Two brick chimneystacks with clay pots to north party wall. Red brick walls with cement pointing laid in Flemish bond, rendered walls to rear elevation (east). Gauged brick segmental-headed window openings with bowtelll moulded brick surrounds, granite sills and original two-over-two timber sash windows with historic glass and ogee horns, one-over-one to first floor. Replacement glazed shopfront with lead lining at first floor sill level. Forming part of a continuous terrace of commercial and formerly residential buildings lining east side of Grafton Street.
Appraisal
An elegant purpose-built commercial building, by engineer and architect George Tighe Moore, reflecting the changing nature of Grafton Street at the turn of the twentieth-century. The building retains the plot size of the former house on the site, in addition to a domestic fenestration pattern and roof form. Despite the loss of the original ground floor fabric, the building retains much of its historic fabric above. It makes a positive contribution to the varied character of the streetscape.