Survey Data
Reg No
50930147
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1815 - 1835
Coordinates
316473, 232831
Date Recorded
28/08/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1825, as a pair with No. 20 (50930148). Two-stage return to rear (east) elevation. Now in use as office. M-profiled roof, hipped to south, concealed by brick parapet with ashlar granite eaves, moulded granite coping and blocking course. Pair of shouldered brick chimneystacks to north party wall with lipped yellow clay pots. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond with rusticated granite quoins to north side, rusticated ashlar granite walling to ground floor and rendered walls to basement beneath granite stringcourse. Smooth rendered walling to rear (east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, rendered reveals and granite sills; raised granite surrounds to basement opening with cast-iron grille affixed. Decorative iron balconettes to first floor openings, wrought-iron guard rails to second floor. Largely one-over-one timber sliding sash windows with profiled horns, six-over-six to second and third floor (diminishing in height), ten-over-ten to basement, all without horns. Round-headed door opening with moulded rendered reveals and recessed surround with Greek-Doric portico having plain frieze and moulded cornice supported on fluted Doric columns, with plain fanlight and timber panelled door having beaded-muntin. Shared granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot scraper, approached by four bull-nosed granite steps and flanked by cast-iron railings with decorative arrow finials over granite plinth, enclosing basement well to north. Replacement mild-steel steps to basement with plainly detailed replacement door beneath entrance platform. Coal-hole cover to pavement. Replacement mews building and boundary wall to east on Lad Lane Upper.
Appraisal
A fine Georgian-style former townhouse, characterised by restrained external detailing and well-balanced proportions. It retains noteworthy features including a Greek-Doric portico, iron balconettes and timber sash windows. Although the streetscape is largely cohesive in appearance, slight variations between the groups of houses on Fitzwilliam Place is illustrative of the incremental nature of speculative development during this period. Developed in conjunction with the east and south sides of Fitzwilliam Square, the eastern side of Fitzwilliam Place was completed by 1836, with the exception of five houses to the south-end, which were built c. 1840.