Survey Data
Reg No
15605101
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1815 - 1835
Coordinates
271732, 127119
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house, c.1825, on a corner site. Refenestrated, c.1925, with one opening to ground floor remodelled. One of a group of five. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, replacement rendered (shared) and red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, rendered coping, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoins to corner. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1925 (square-headed window opening to ground floor remodelled, c.1925, to accommodate tripartite opening with cut-stone sill, moulded rendered surround, timber mullions, and one-over-one timber sash windows). Segmental-headed door opening with moulded surround leading to concave reveals, carved timber surround, and timber panelled door having overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
An elegant house built as one of a group of five units (including 15605102 - 103, 227 - 228) recalling a contemporary (c.1825) development in Priory Place (see 15605087 - 90) making a dignified visual impression in a prominent corner position at the meeting of Priory Street with Lower William Street with attributes identifying a pleasing architectural design aesthetic including the vertical emphasis of the massing with the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a slightly tiered visual effect, the minimal superfluous ornamentation limited to a Classically-detailed 'Morrison doorcase' characteristic of the locality, the later Wyatt-derived tripartite opening, and so on. Having been well maintained, the house presents an early aspect with much of the historic fabric surviving in place, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus contributing positively to the character of the local setting.