Survey Data
Reg No
12308031
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1900 - 1905
Coordinates
249746, 157944
Date Recorded
10/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey Arts-and-Crafts-style house, built 1904, with single-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bay to left. Refenestrated. One of a pair forming part of a group of six. Mansard (shared) slate roof (gabled mansard to end bay) with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) tapered chimney stack, timber bargeboards, sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging timber eaves. Painted roughcast walls with red brick buttress piers to ground floor, painted red and yellow brick panel to first floor end bay having limestone dressings, and red brick dressings to gable. Square-headed window openings with Diocletian window opening to first floor end bay (some oculus window openings to ground floor) having cut-limestone shallow sills, red brick voussoirs to Diocletian window opening, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door. Set back from line of road with wrought iron railings to perimeter of site.
Appraisal
A picturesque modest-scale house built as one of a pair (with 12308012/KK-19-08-12) forming the end blocks to a group of six related houses (including 12308013 - 4, 29 - 30/KK-19-08-13 - 4, 29 - 30) representing an integral component of a planned village built to designs prepared by William Alphonsus Scott (1871-1921) for Ellen Odette Desart (née Bischoffsheim), fourth Countess of Desart (1857-1933) as accommodation for workers associated with the Kilkenny Woodworkers Company together with the nearby Greenvale Woollen Mills (12308004/KK-19-08-04). Idiosyncratic characteristics contributing to the architectural design value of the composition include the varied profile of the openings, the distinctive profile of the roof, and so on, while the juxtaposition of a number of materials in the construction enhances the Arts-and-Crafts theme of the house. However, although the retention of the original form and massing maintains some of the character of the ensemble in the landscape the external expression of the composition has not benefited from the insertion of inappropriate replacement fittings to most of the openings.