Survey Data
Reg No
11814093
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1850 - 1870
Coordinates
289513, 219977
Date Recorded
22/05/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1860, retaining early fenestration with two-bay two-storey advanced bay to left having single-bay single-storey canted bay window to ground floor. One of a pair. Hipped roofs (shared) with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stack. Cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded yellow brick course to eaves. Rendered walls to ground floor. Channelled. Unpainted. Rendered string/sill course to first floor. Yellow brick Flemish bond walls to first floor. Roughcast walls to remainder. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills (rendered sill course to first floor). 1/1 timber sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening. Timber pilaster doorcase with consoles and entablature. Timber panelled door. Overlight. Set back from road in own grounds. Gravel forecourt to front. Attached single-bay single-storey former coach house with half-attic, c.1860, to south originally with segmental-headed integral carriageway to ground floor. Renovated and extended, c.1970, comprising single-bay single-storey glazed linking bay to north (linking to house) to accommodate residential use with openings remodelled to front (west) elevation. Hipped roof with slate (hipped to half-attic window). Clay ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Gable-ended roof to linking bay. Glazed in timber frame. Yellow brick Flemish bond walls to front (west) elevation. Rendered walls to remainder. Unpainted. Rendered plinth wall to linking bay. Unpainted. Square-headed window opening to half-attic inserted, c.1970. Stone sill. 2/2 timber sash window. Segmental-headed integral carriageway to ground floor remodelled, c.1970, with stone sill and 1/1 timber sash window added in tripartite arrangement having 1/1 sidelights. Concrete sills to linking bay. Fixed-pane timber windows. Glazed timber panelled door. Gateway, c.1860, to front (west) comprising cast-iron piers with cast-iron double gates and cast-iron railings on rendered plinth wall.
Appraisal
Titusville (House) is a fine and well-maintained house that retains its original form and character. Built as one of a pair of identical houses, the house is of social and historic interest, representing the middle-size dwellings of the prosperous merchant class in Naas in the mid nineteenth century. The house also represents the early development of the outskirts of the town. The house is constructed of fine materials, including channelled render to ground floor with early mass-produced yellow brick over. The house retains most of its original features and materials, including timber sash fenestration, a timber door, together with a slate roof having cast-iron rainwater goods. The retention of an early external aspect suggests that the interior may retain early or original features and fittings of note. The house is complemented to the south by a fine coach house that has been sympathetically converted to residential use retaining much of its original form – for example, the former carriageway has been remodelled as an attractive tripartite window opening. The house is fronted on to the road by a fine gateway and sections of railings that are important early examples of decorative cast-iron work. The house, together with its neighbour to north (11814094/KD-19-14-94), forms an attractive feature on the streetscape of Sallins Road leading out of Naas to the north.