Survey Data
Reg No
20818041
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1775 - 1785
Coordinates
181272, 113033
Date Recorded
01/10/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Attached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1780, with central doorway in front elevation and having projecting porch to north gable. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, replacement uPVC rainwater goods and carved limestone eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls with chamfered limestone quoins, limestone platband below eaves, and limestone plinth course. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows to upper floors of front elevation, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to basement and double two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to north elevation, with limestone sills and having render surrounds to front elevation. Round-headed carved limestone Gibbsian doorcase with triple keystone, timber panelled door and replacement fanlight, with flight of limestone steps over area and cast-iron railings to site on limestone plinths. Pedimented timber doorcase to projecting porch, having double-leaf timber panelled door surmounted by cobweb fanlight, flanked by engaged columns with limestone plinths, moulded capitals and caps above with triglyphs, surmounted by open-bed pediment, approached by flight of splaying limestone steps with rendered parapets having limestone copings. Decorative cast-iron railings to front, on limestone plinths. Rendered square-profile piers to garden with wrought-iron pedestrian gate.
Appraisal
This fine Georgian terrace was built in 1780 as part of the planned town by the Earl of Kingston for his retainers, and incorporates many typical neo-classical features of the period, such as symmetry and fanlights. This house has retained much of its early character and charm, in the fine limestone doorcase with its timber panelled door, and the surviving timber sliding sash windows. The house was once inhabited by the rent collector for the estate of the Earl of Kingston, and tenants would pay rent at this house, using the projecting porch entrance.