Survey Data
Reg No
15602036
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
House
Date
1900 - 1910
Coordinates
291283, 156724
Date Recorded
14/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, dated 1905, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, ----, with "shopfront" added to right ground floor. One of a terrace of seven. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping, decorative timber bargeboards to gablets, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part repointed coursed rubble stone wall to front (east) elevation on rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening below rusticated cut-granite date stone ("1905") with cut-granite threshold, and red brick block-and-start surround framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds (ground floor) or red brick block-and-start surrounds supporting lintels (half-dormer attic) framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a terrace of seven houses (including 15602034 - 15602035) representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century domestic built heritage of Bunclody with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone offset by red brick dressings; the very slight diminishing in scale of the openings; and the miniature gablets embellishing a high pitched roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a picturesque visual statement in Irish Street.