Survey Data
Reg No
21512025
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1890 - 1910
Coordinates
156939, 157512
Date Recorded
26/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached two-bay three-storey red brick house, built c. 1900, facing south with a two-storey three-sided canted bay window to gabled breakfront, paired with neighbouring breakfront. Single-bay two-storey gabled return to rear shared with neighbouring house. Pitched artificial slate roof with intersecting pitched breakfront roof. Terracotta ridge tiles. Rendered chimneystack to breakfront with moulded clay pots. Red brick chimneystack to gable of side elevation with red brick stringcourse. Cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond with weather hung fishscaled terracotta tiles to gable of breakfront. Moulded red brick eaves throughout with cement flaunching to coping and cast eagle to apex. Cement rendered rear and return elevations. Square-headed window openings with red brick flat arches, reveals, limestone sills with sill course to bays, red brick reveals, and single-pane timber sash window, with twelve-paned overlights. uPVC window to attic opening of breakfront. Three-sided canted bay window to rear with timber sills, rendered apron lead covered roof, and single-pane timber sash windows with ogee horns and cylinder glass. Four-leaf nine-paned timber casement window to rear set in segmental arched opening with cylinder glass. Square-headed door opening to side of breakfront, set in shallow porch, with bull nose moulded reveals to limestone lintel, and red brick reveals, limestone step, original flat-panelled and glazed timber door leaf. Overlight over door lintel with matching bull nose lintel and tripartite arched overlight. Large front and rear site with rendered plinth wall supporting wrought-iron railings with end piers, to one side supporting wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Rubble limestone boundary wall to east and shared rear site access lane. Attractive timber framed carport accessed from rear site lane, with elaborate timber bargeboard and double-leaf plank gates.
Appraisal
This house forms one of two with a shared composition pairing gabled breakfronts. Like many late Victorian and Edwardian houses the design incorporates a multitude of architectural detailing included the curious front door composition. Very much intact retaining original sash windows door leaf and overlight. This house forms part of the turn of twentieth-century development of Landsdown Villas. The development, by Clifford Smith, is evidence of the middle class wealth in the City at the time.