Survey Data
Reg No
31211028
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1897
Coordinates
98248, 284339
Date Recorded
27/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay two-storey house, extant 1897. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles centred on rendered chimney stack having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal or tapered pots, red brick coping to gable, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered cut-limestone eaves. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed door opening with drag edged tooled cut-limestone step threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills[?], and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a pair (including 31211027) representing an integral component of the late nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Westport Quay with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such traits as the compact near-square plan form; and the uniform proportions of the openings on each floor. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Quay Street.