Survey Data
Reg No
21517194
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1810 - 1830
Coordinates
157312, 156535
Date Recorded
16/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay four-storey over-basement red brick house, built c. 1820, forming one of a crescent of terraced house of similar scale. M-profile artificial slate roof concealed behind a parapet wall to front and rear elevation. Rendered chimneystacks to north and south party walls. uPVC rainwater goods. Red brick façade and rear elevation laid in Flemish bond with cement re-pointing. Localised refacing in contrasting hard edged red brick to rear elevation. Limestone coping and concrete coping to parapet walls of bow to rear. Tooled limestone ashlar faced façade basement elevation with smooth limestone ashlar plinth course delineating ground floor level. Metal spiral fire escape to rear. Red brick square-headed window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted limestone sills (joined at ground floor level) and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor window opening. Square-headed window openings to rear elevation and camber-arched Wyatt window openings all having replacement uPVC windows. One round-arched window opening has been squared off with red brick and glazed with a uPVC window. Three-centred arch door opening, with brown brick arch, rendered reveals, limestone threshold step, and inset doorcase comprising: three-quarters engaged Composite columns with stylised foliate capitals and responding pilasters, supporting dentil enriched entablature breaking forward over orders; frosted glass sidelights over panelled timber bases and original raised and fielded panelled timber door leaf; radiating webbed fanlight enriched by lead detailing. Opening onto limestone flagged front door platform, arrived at by limestone steps. Steps and platform flanked by limestone plinth wall supporting replacement wrought-iron railings with spearhead finials and cast-iron rail posts with pineapple finials, which return to enclose the front site basement area. Metal steps to basement level. Unfinished concrete block constructed rear site building facing the rear site.
Appraisal
No 8 forms one of a crescent terrace of houses on the east side of O'Connell Street. It expresses, through its large scale and overwhelmingly strict massing, the nobility of the Georgian Newtown Pery buildings.