Survey Data
Reg No
21517210
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1820 - 1830
Coordinates
157383, 156663
Date Recorded
17/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay four-storey over basement house, built c. 1825, and distinguished by a three-centred door opening and doorcase, which is broadly similar to the remaining houses on the terrace, with which it shares a relatively uniform fenestration arrangement and parapet height. M-profile pitched roof concealed behind a parapet wall. Large return to rear. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls, laid in Flemish bond with cement re-pointing. Rebuilt parapet wall with reset limestone coping and lead damp course beneath. Tooled limestone ashlar basement elevation, terminating at ground floor level with a smooth limestone ashlar plinth course. Partially visible red brick rear elevation laid in Flemish bond, with limestone coping to parapet wall. Fire esacpe attached to rear. Square-headed window openings, red brick flat-arched, patent rendered reveals, limestone sills, and replacement uPVC windows. Sill level of one opening at ground floor level dropped to form door opening, accessed by metal landing off principal front door area. Three-centred arch door opening, red brick arch, patent rendered reveals, and inset doorcase on limestone plinth comprising: three-quarters engaged Composite columns, flanking central raised and fielded panelled timber door leaf and frosted glass sidelights on plain plinth bases, and joined above by diminutive entablature which breaks forward over orders and sidelights, with fluted frieze with medallions, and modillion cornice. Radiating fanlight above. Door opens onto limestone flagged front door platform accessed from public pavement by five limestone steps, with cast-iron bootscraper, and flanked by limestone plinth walls supporting wrought-iron railings with spike finials, and cast-iron rail posts with pineapple finials. To rear site lane is an original coach house, with squared and coursed limestone elevation, and bricked up square-headed loft window opening, and crudely enlarged vehicular opening at ground floor level incorporating original coach entrance and window.
Appraisal
This fine large scale late Georgian house on O'Connell Street forms one of a terrace of similarly scaled terraced houses which suggests the primacy of this street within the Newtown Pery streetscape. The loss of the timber sash windows and presence of uPVC replacements, diminishes the intactness of this otherwise well-maintained house.