Survey Data
Reg No
21517195
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1810 - 1830
Coordinates
157316, 156542
Date Recorded
17/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay four-storey over-basement brown brick house, built c. 1820, with a doorcase paired with neighbouring house and a full-height bow window to rear. M-profile artificial slate roof concealed behind a parapet wall to front and rear elevation. Rendered brown brick chimneystack to south party wall. uPVC rainwater goods. Brown 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. Red brick square-headed window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Square-headed window openings to rear elevation including Wyatt window openings all having replacement uPVC windows. One round-arched 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 fluted 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 with wrought-iron bootscraper, 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. Rubble limestone coach house, with arch rendered over or removed and timber lintel over vehicular opening.
Appraisal
This house 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.