Survey Data
Reg No
15502030
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1875 - 1880
Coordinates
304642, 121994
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house, built 1876. Refenestrated, post-1996. Now in use as offices. One of a terrace of three forming part of a group of seven. Pitched and hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack having profiled or stepped capping, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows, post-1996 (replacing two-over-two timber sash windows). Square-headed door opening with cut-granite threshold supporting cast-iron bootscraper, timber panelled (hollow) pilaster doorcase on cut-granite padstones, and timber panelled door having overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from line of street with rendered plinth having cut-granite coping supporting iron railings incorporating cast-iron finials, rendered panelled piers having carved cut-granite capping, and iron gate incorporating cast-iron finials [VO].
Appraisal
A well composed middle-size house built by Mrs. Mary O'Connor (1837-1927), contractor, on a site retained by the Bolton family of Island House as one of a terrace of three related houses (with 15502028 - 29) forming part of a larger group of seven houses (with 15502024 - 27) making a positive contribution to the streetscape value of George's Street Upper with the slightly stepped roofline corresponding with or following the slight incline or slope in the street. Having been reasonably well maintained, the house retains the elementary composition attributes together with some of the historic fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior: however, the character or external expression of the house has not benefited from the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings. Meanwhile, early iron work featuring cast-iron embellishments further enlivens the street presence of the house in the street scene.