Survey Data
Reg No
31204046
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1925 - 1930
Coordinates
124556, 318958
Date Recorded
12/12/2008
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, under reconstruction 1926, with shopfront to ground floor. Renovated with opening to ground floor remodelled. Pitched slate roof with perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, rooflights to rear (west) pitch, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (east) elevation with rusticated rendered quoins to corners; roughcast surface finish (remainder). Rendered shopfront to ground floor including segmental-headed door opening with timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with moulded rendered sill course, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings over framing timber casement windows retaining six-over-six or two-over-one timber sash windows without horns to rear (west) elevation. Street fronted with cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house reconstructed for Hugh Ruddy (d. 1962), 'Manufacturer [and] General Merchant' (NA 1911), representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of Ballina with the architectural value of the composition, one retaining at least the shell of a house marked on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1838; published 1839), suggested by such attributes as the compact near-square plan form; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric including crown or cylinder glazing panels in hornless sash frames: meanwhile, a modified shopfront continues to make a pleasing visual statement in Pearse Street at street level.