Survey Data
Reg No
15611008
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1842 - 1904
Coordinates
319926, 156315
Date Recorded
08/01/2007
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, extant 1904, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. Refenestrated, ----. Pitched slate roof centred on gablet with ridge tiles, rendered (north) or red brick Running bond (south) chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, timber bargeboards to gablet with timber finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Segmental-headed central door opening with concealed dressings centred on rendered keystone framing timber panelled door having overlight. Camber-headed window openings to "cheeks" with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over framing fixed-pane timber fittings having margins. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Street fronted with wrought iron railings to perimeter centred on wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Courtown with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a Classically-detailed porch; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the miniature gablet embellishing the roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a seaside village street scene.