Survey Data
Reg No
15505006
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Date
1900 - 1910
Coordinates
305110, 121522
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey red brick house, between 1900-10, with shopfront to ground floor. Extensively renovated, 2005-6. Now disused. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Flemish or Running bond chimney stacks having yellow brick stringcourses, stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded red brick eaves having iron ties. Red brick Flemish bond wall to front (west) elevation with yellow brick dressings including quoins to ends, stringcourses to each floor, red brick stringcourse to top floor, red brick stringcourse supporting yellow brick Flemish bond frieze, moulded red brick cornice, and rendered, ruled and lined walls to remainder. Camber-headed window openings to first floor with square-headed window openings to top floor having cut-granite sills, yellow brick 'quoined' chamfered surrounds rising into red and yellow brick voussoirs (red brick hood mouldings over to first floor; moulded red brick stringcourse to top floor), and repaired or replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, 2006. Timber shopfront to ground floor renovated, 2006, with pilasters, fixed-pane (single- and two-light) display windows having cast-iron supporting pillar behind, glazed timber panelled door having louvered overlight, timber panelled door to house having overlight incorporating spandrels, fascia having fluted consoles, and moulded cornice. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front [SS].
Appraisal
A well composed house of the middle size built by Mrs. Mary O'Connor (1837-1927), contractor, as one of an identical pair (with 15505007) recalling a contemporary (1907) development in Main Street North (see 15502011 - 12/) making a distinctive impression in the street scene on account of the lively construction in red brick with yellow brick dressings producing a polychromatic visual effect redolent of the period of construction: supplementary attributes, including the elegant swept profile of some openings featuring decorative surrounds, the moulded dressings in the Classical manner, and so on, all further enliven the architectural design appeal of the composition. Having been sympathetically renovated, the house continues to present an early aspect with the elementary form and massing surviving in place together with much of the original or carefully replicated fabric, thereby upholding the positive impression made on the character of Main Street South.