Survey Data
Reg No
21517122
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
157201, 156529
Date Recorded
16/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey over basement red brick house, built c. 1850, with a two-storey over basement return to rear. Pitched artificial slate roof concealed to front behind parapet wall, having terracotta ridge tiles, and rendered chimneystack to party wall and partially rendered red brick chimneystack to gabled external wall having moulded clay pots. Red brick front and side elevation laid in Flemish bond with lime mortar pointing; rendered façade basement level and painted plinth course delineating ground floor level; lead flashed parapet coping; render finish to ground level of side elevation and rendered rear and return elevation. Square-headed window openings, red brick flat arches, patent rendered reveals, painted limestone sills; original six-over-six timber sash windows to façade and rear elevation, with one uPVC casement windows. Three-centred arch door opening, with red brick arch, patent rendered reveals, and inset timber doorcase comprising flat-panelled uprights, profiled console brackets joined by profiled lintel, with original webbed fanlight above; flat-panelled timber door with two vertical format panels retaining historic Wellington door knocker. Limestone flagged front door platform bridges basement area, with historic cast-iron bootscraper. Basement area enclosed by limestone plinth wall with wrought-iron railings having Neo-classical cast-iron rail posts with pineapple finials and wrought-iron arrow head railing finials. Intact rubble limestone rear site boundary wall.
Appraisal
This house forms one of a terrace of six houses which are of a modest scale when compared with the O'Connell Street (formerly George's Street) terraces. Newenham Street is named after Rev. Edward Newenham Hoare, who built the Trinity Church of Ireland Church.