Survey Data
Reg No
15503084
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1790 - 1810
Coordinates
304843, 121887
Date Recorded
16/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay four-storey house, c.1800, possibly originally forming part of larger four-bay three-storey house. Renovated and part refenestrated, pre-1880, with rendered façade enrichments added. Renovated, post-1996, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, chimney stack(s) not visible, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, pre-1880, having keystones, three-over-six (second floor) and three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows without horns having replacement timber casement windows, pre-1880, to first floor retaining overlights. Replacement timber shopfront, post-1996, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan on polished granite base with pilasters, fixed-pane display windows, glazed timber panelled door having overlight, fascia having consoles, and lined moulded cornice. Interior with timber staircase having turned timber balustrade supporting carved timber handrail, and run-moulded plasterwork cornices to ceilings. Street fronted with cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A pleasantly appointed house of the middle size possibly originally intended as part of a larger composition (with 15503083) identified in the streetscape by attributes including the vertical emphasis of the massing, the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing an elegant tiered visual effect, the later dressings identifying a muted Classical theme, and so on. Having been reasonably well maintained, the house continues to present an early aspect with much of the historic fabric surviving in place, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby upholding the positive contribution made by the collective ensemble to the streetscape value of Main Street North.