Survey Data
Reg No
15605056
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
271878, 127492
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace two-bay four-storey house with dormer attic, c.1850, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier range, pre-1840, on site with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, chimney stack(s) removed, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Rendered walls over coursed random rubble stone construction with tooled cut-granite quoins to chamfer to corner to ground floor, and exposed coursed random rubble stone construction to side (south) elevation having slate hanging to gable. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, nine-over-six (first floor), six-over-six (second floor) and three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows. Shopfront to ground floor with engaged fluted Ionic columns on cut-granite padstones, fixed-pane timber display window on carved timber sill, glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight incorporating margins, and fascia having slate-lined moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A pleasantly composed house of the middle size forming part of an ensemble with at least four similar houses (including 15605054 - 55, 57, 230) making a pleasing impression in the streetscape of South Street with attributes including the vertical emphasis of the massing, the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a tiered visual effect, and so on, all identifying a refined architectural design aesthetic. Having been particularly well maintained, the house presents an early aspect with most of the historic or original fabric surviving in place, both to the exterior and to the interior including an original shopfront of artistic design interest displaying good quality craftsmanship producing a Classical theme at street level.