Survey Data
Reg No
31207006
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Date
1840 - 1895
Coordinates
137604, 299678
Date Recorded
05/11/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, extant 1895, with shopfront to ground floor. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stack having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hopper and downpipe. Rendered walls. Rendered shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-limestone sills including cut-limestone sills on dentil consoles (top floor), and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house regarded as an important component of the nineteenth-century built heritage of Swinford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such traits as the compact plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and allegedly to the interior, including a Classically-composed shopfront of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in Market Street at street level.