Survey Data
Reg No
12317093
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
258831, 141981
Date Recorded
18/05/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1850. Extensively renovated. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks over red brick Running bond construction, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Random rubble stone walls originally rendered with render removed retaining fragments of unpainted render to gable. Square-headed window openings (originally door opening to centre ground floor remodelled) with cut-limestone sills (concrete sill to remodelled opening), terracotta lintels, and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening to rear (north) elevation with rendered surround, and timber panelled door. Road fronted with random rubble stone boundary wall incorporating elliptical-headed carriageway having squared rubble stone voussoirs, and wrought iron double gates.
Appraisal
An appealing small-scale house possibly originally having associations with a brewery operating on site in the nineteenth century, thereby forming an important element of the commercial and industrial legacy of Thomastown. Although the retention of most of the original form and massing maintains some of the integrity of the composition extensive renovation works including the exposure of the rubble stone construction may have a negative impact on the fabric of the house in the long term.