Survey Data
Reg No
15605280
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
271860, 127345
Date Recorded
20/01/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, c.1850. Refenestrated. One of a group of four forming part of a group of eight. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stacks, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining (shared) cast-iron ogee hopper and downpipe. Part ivy-clad rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows (square-headed window opening to ground floor remodelled with sill, rendered surround having chamfered reveals, and replacement uPVC casement window). Square-headed door opening with cut-limestone step, rendered surround having chamfered reveals, timber panelled (hollow) pilaster doorcase having panelled (hollow) consoles, and timber panelled door having overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A well composed house of modest size built as one of a group of four units (including 15605122 - 123, 281) forming part of a group of eight houses (with 15605124 - 127) making a pleasing contribution to the streetscape aesthetic of South Street with attributes including the slender vertical emphasis of the massing facilitating a stepped roofline corresponding with the gradient or incline of the street, the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a tiered visual effect, the reserved decorative treatment limited to a Classically-detailed doorcase, and so on, all identifying a refined architectural design programme. However, while the elementary composition prevails together with a quantity of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, the character or external expression of the house or the collective ensemble has not benefited from the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings.