Survey Data
Reg No
16301082
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1855 - 1865
Coordinates
326895, 219093
Date Recorded
01/07/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, one of a largely uniform row of eight, built in 1860, and divided into two apartments. A veranda and first floor Regency style balcony spans the front of the building, continuing across the whole grouping. The veranda has a low rendered wall with simple railings and steps, and slender iron columns with brackets support the balcony. The balcony itself has decorative geometric Chinoiserie railings. The façade is finished in painted lined render, whilst the pitched roof is covered in artificial slate and has an overhang supported on paired brackets, and a shared rendered chimneystack with corbelling. The entrance consists of two timber and glazed doors with rectangular fanlights. The windows are flat-headed and filled with two over two timber sash frames. A glazed door to the first floor leads onto the balcony. Painted stone sills. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The building faces onto Bray’s grass-covered esplanade, but is separated from it by a small private space now mainly used for car-parking.
Appraisal
This house (now seemingly divided into two apartments) forms part of one of Bray’s earliest, best preserved, and most distinctive seafront terraces, however the main entrance has been altered to incorporate two doorways.