Survey Data

Reg No

13831014


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Social


Original Use

Worker's house


In Use As

House


Date

1870 - 1875


Coordinates

322391, 310806


Date Recorded

08/08/2005


Date Updated

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Description

Terraced two-bay two-storey former railway worker's house, built 1872, now in private domestic use. Single-storey extension to east. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneystack with yellow brick corbel course, cast-iron gutters on painted timber fascia to overhanging eaves. Squared coursed rubble limestone walling; unpainted smooth rendered walling to east. Square-headed window openings, block-and-start bull-nosed yellow brick jambs, flat-arched bull-nosed brick lintels, granite sills, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows with horns. Square-headed door opening, block-and-start bull-nosed yellow brick jambs, flat-arched bull-nosed brick lintel, limestone threshold, painted timber panelled door, frosted-glazed overlight. Fronts directly onto street, garden to east with communal laneway giving access to gardens forming eastern boundary.

Appraisal

This modest terraced house is a fine example of late-nineteenth-century worker's housing. Built for the workers of the London and North Western Railway, which was completed in 1873, the terrace is an integral part of Greenore. Their simple forms are enhanced by the attractive yellow brick window dressings, a feature of Euston Street, and they stand as a reminder of the development of Greenore as an important transit point in the late-nineteenth century.