Survey Data
Reg No
31212093
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1838
Coordinates
99643, 284282
Date Recorded
18/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay three-storey house, extant 1838[?], with shopfront to ground floor. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Rendered wall (ground floor); roughcast surface finish (upper floors) with rendered "bas-relief" strips to ends supporting rendered band to eaves. Timber shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one (first floor) or three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (upper floors): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front having cut-limestone kerbing.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a near-identical pair (including 31212094) representing an integral component of the built heritage of Westport with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a Classically-detailed shopfront of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in Shop Street at street level.