Survey Data
Reg No
50930084
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1815 - 1825
Coordinates
316536, 233131
Date Recorded
10/09/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1820, with two-storey over basement return to north. Now in use as offices. M-profile slate roof, hipped to west and set behind parapet wall with moulded granite coping and frieze, replacement metal hopper and downpipe breaking through to west. Replacement red brick chimneystacks with lipped clay pots to east party wall. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with lime pointing. Moulded granite plinth course over ruled-and-lined rendered basement wall. Rendered walls to return. Gauged brick square-headed window openings with granite sills and timber sash windows; original eight-over-eight pane to basement with iron grille and granite surround, largely early-twentieth century replacement one-over-one to remainder, with horns. Iron sill-guards to third floor and late-nineteenth century or early-twentieth century full-span iron balcony to first floor. Some Wyatt-style timber sash windows with iron sill-guards to rear elevation and horizontally-glazed two-over-two sashes to return. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with sandstone Ionic doorcase comprising square-headed door opening flanked by Ionic columns supporting fluted lintel entablature and replacement leaded fanlight. Original timber panelled door with eleven raised-and-fielded panels and brass door furniture opening onto shared granite platform with iron boot scraper and nosed granite steps to street. Platform and basement enclosed by original wrought- and cast-iron railings set on granite plinth wall. Concrete steps provide access to basement. Forming part of a continuous terrace of former townhouses lining north side of Fitzwilliam Square. Recent brick wall and gate to north boundary on Pembroke Lane.
Appraisal
Built as a unified terrace comprising Nos. 61-64 (50930086-3), this former townhouse retains its overall external composition, lime wigged pointing, and a handsome doorcase which forms the decorative focus. The building contributes to the historic character of the square and the wider south Georgian core. Laid out in 1791 by the surveyors J & P Roe, Fitzwilliam Square was the last of the city’s Georgian squares to be completed. Development was staggered and progressed slowly until after the Napoleonic Wars.