Survey Data
Reg No
31212121
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1789 - 1838
Coordinates
99722, 284299
Date Recorded
25/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, extant 1838, originally two separate single-bay three-storey houses with shopfronts to ground floor. Reroofed. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered cut-limestone eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to ends. Timber shopfronts to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one 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 brick cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as part of a terrace of four units (including 31212119 - 31212120) representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of Westport with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact near-square 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 Classically-detailed shopfronts of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in Bridge Street at street level.