Survey Data
Reg No
31212123
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1789 - 1838
Coordinates
99707, 284271
Date Recorded
25/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house, extant 1838[?], originally two separate single-bay three-storey houses with shopfront to ground floor; three-bay three-storey side (south) elevation. Renovated. Pitched and hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack (north) with red brick Common bond chimney stack (south) having chevron- or saw tooth-detailed corbelled stepped stringcourse below capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Timber shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash (first floor) or replacement uPVC casement (top floor) windows. Interior including (upper floors): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted on a corner site with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the built heritage of Westport with the architectural value of the composition, one originally erected as two separate houses, suggested by such attributes as the compact 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-composed shopfront of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in the streetscape at street level: the gradual introduction of replacement fittings to the openings, however, has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of the composition.