Survey Data
Reg No
21525003
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1890 - 1910
Coordinates
156396, 155020
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached two-bay two-storey red brick house, built c. 1900, with three-sided red brick bay window at ground floor level having a lean-to roof structure prolonged to incorporate a partially glazed timber-framed entrance porch. Engaged gabled return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles. Red brick chimneystacks rise from party walls with stringcourse and cornice. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick façade laid in English garden wall bond. Rendered side and rear elevations. Square-headed window openings with elaborately detailed reinforced pre-cast lintel blocks, red brick reveals, limestone sills. Bay window comprising narrow window openings divided by red brick pier, with red brick apron beneath limestone sill. Continuous lintel block. uPVC windows throughout. Closed timber-framed entrance porch with encaustic tiled entrance platform, multiple-paned leaded coloured glass sidelights over panelled timber bases, glazed flat-panelled porch door leaf, and multiple-paned overlight, separated from neighbouring porch by timber screen. Square-headed door opening with limestone door step, simple doorframe incorporating overlight, and flat-panelled timber door having horizontal centre panel. Elevated front site enclosed from the road by a red brick plinth wall with concrete coping and cast-iron panelling above. Boundary terminated by red brick pier with stop-chamfered corners. Cast-iron gate posts with cast-iron gate following embellishments of cast-iron panelling. Rendered rear site boundary wall with cast-iron with vehicular access.
Appraisal
One of a pair of interesting late nineteenth-century houses compositionally united by paired gates and porch doors. Despite the loss of the original windows, the massing of the house is intact giving added architectural interest to the house.