Survey Data
Reg No
21525010
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1880 - 1900
Coordinates
156432, 155067
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey red brick house, built c. 1890, with a red brick three-sided canted bay window having hipped slate roof. Further distinguished by a round-arch porch door opening. Two-bay two-storey return prolonged by lean-to outbuilding. Pitched artificial slate roof with terracotta comb ridge tiles. Red brick chimneystack to east and west party wall with stringcourse and cornice rising from party walls. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls, laid in English garden wall bond with recessed mortar pointing. Dog-tooth and moulded brick eaves course, repeated to eaves of bay window. Segmental-arched window openings with red brick arches, limestone sills, continuous to bay window, and original one-over-one timber sash windows with ogee horns and arched upper sashes. Round-arched porch door opening with red brick pilasters having cast stucco capitals joined by over-door enriched by cast foliate spandrels and Bacchus mask to keystone beneath a cornice. Original tiled porch floor. Doorframe comprising sidelights over panelled timber base, tripartite overlight and flat-panelled timber door leaf. Concrete steps to porch door. Elevated front site enclosed from road by red brick plinth wall supporting foliate cast-iron panelling, terminated by rendered plinth wall with limestone name plaque. Cast-iron gate piers support cast-iron gate. Concrete path to front door with steps accommodating rise in levels. Site enclosed from neighbour by hedge and timber fencing. Rendered boundary wall encloses rear site, c. 1990.
Appraisal
Forming one of four houses sharing a similarly treated front door porch opening and within a terrace of four houses sharing a continuous ridge line and scale. Front site boundary walls make an important contribution to the streetscape.