Survey Data
Reg No
50920019
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Gibson Brothers
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
315906, 233612
Date Recorded
22/10/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay four-storey former townhouse, built c. 1820, as pair with No. 49 (50920020). Now in use as shop with recent shopfront inserted to ground floor. M-profile natural slate roof, hipped to north and hidden behind parapet wall with two brick chimneystacks to south party wall having octagonal clay pots, parapet gutters. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with rendered parapet wall and crown cornice. Buff brick to rear elevation laid in English garden wall bond. Gauged brick square-headed window openings with masonry sills, Roman cement architraves and timber sash windows; historic three-over-six to third floor (no horns), six-over-six to second floor (convex horns) and one-over-one to first floor (with ogee horns). uPVC to rear (east) elevation. Recent glazed and chrome shopfront spanning ground floor with lead flashing rising above first floor sill level. Forming part of continuous terrace of commercial buildings lining east side of Grafton Street.
Appraisal
This former townhouse retains its original residential plot size, fenestration pattern and historic windows, and forms part of a group of four similarly scaled buildings at the south-eastern end of Grafton Street. It is part of a historic streetscape which clearly depicts the earlier character of the street, before Victorian and twentieth-century buildings were inserted.