Survey Data
Reg No
31212133
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Date
1935 - 1940
Coordinates
99900, 284274
Date Recorded
06/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built 1938, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. One of a pair. Hipped slate roof with concrete ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Hipped square-headed central door opening with timber mullions on concrete step threshold supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights below overlight. Square-headed window openings including square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (ground floor) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having one-over-one sidelights (ground floor). Set back from street in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site with rendered piers to perimeter having segmental capping supporting wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a pair of houses (included 31212132) representing an integral component of the twentieth-century domestic 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 tiered visual effect with the principal "apartments" defined by tripartite glazing patterns. 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, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Mill Street.