Survey Data
Reg No
22825005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Helvick Coastguard Station
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
231243, 89133
Date Recorded
10/09/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced four-bay single-storey coastguard cottage, c.1840, retaining original aspect with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Now in private residential use. One of a group of five. Pitched (shared) roof (gabled to porch) with slate having chamfered corners, moulded red clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, 2/2 timber sash windows, and louvered timber false external shutters. Square-headed door opening with three cut-stone steps, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set back from line of road with unpainted rendered boundary wall to forecourt having unpainted rendered piers.
Appraisal
A well-proportioned small-scale house, built as one of a group of five terraced coastguard cottages (including 22825004, 6, 15 - 16/WD-36-25-04, 6, 15 - 16), which has been very well maintained to present an early aspect. Of particular importance for its original intended use as a coastguard cottage, the house, together with the remainder in the terrace, forms an appealing feature in the streetscape.