Survey Data

Reg No

15503114


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural


Original Use

House


In Use As

Office


Date

1860 - 1865


Coordinates

304794, 121817


Date Recorded

16/06/2005


Date Updated

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Description

End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, built 1864. Refenestrated, pre-1993. Renovated, post-1996. Now in use as offices. One of a group of five. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stacks having profiled capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on red brick header bond eaves having iron ties. Replacement rendered, ruled and lined wall, post-1996, to ground floor over red brick irregular bond construction supporting red brick Running bond walls to upper floors having red brick stringcourse under eaves, and rendered, ruled and lined walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, red brick voussoirs to upper floors, and replacement uPVC casement windows, pre-1993 (replacing six-over-six timber sash windows). Square-headed door opening in square-headed recess with cut-granite step, timber panelled (hollow) pilaster doorcase on cut-granite padstones, and replacement timber panelled door, pre-1993, having overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front [VO].

Appraisal

An elegantly composed house of the middle size reputedly built by the Rowe family of Ballycross House as one of a group of five identical units (with 15503110 - 113) making a positive contribution to the streetscape value of Rowe Street Lower on account of attributes including the vertical emphasis of the massing contributing to a roofline corresponding with or following the slight incline or slope in the street, the uniform proportions on each floor, the construction in a combination of render with red brick producing a lively visual palette, the understated decorative programme limited to a Classically-expressed doorcase displaying expert joinery, and so on. However, while the elementary composition prevails together with some of the historic fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, a comprehensive renovation programme has not had a beneficial impact on the character or external expression of the house.