Survey Data
Reg No
20854120
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
177070, 67774
Date Recorded
08/04/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having flat-roofed canted bay window and recent glazed porch to front (east). Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack, uPVC clad eaves and uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having rendered sills and uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening to interior of recent porch, having carved timber doorcase, timber panelled door with brass door furniture and two-pane overlight. Rendered enclosing walls having moulded render copings and timber pedestrian gate with stepped approach. Rendered enclosing wall to east with cast-iron railings. Square-profile piers with moulded render caps dispersed along length of wall. Three entrances having square-profile red brick gate piers with moulded render caps and rendered stepped approaches to eastern end western entrances. Red brick square-profile gate piers with platbands flanking round-headed arch with red brick voussoirs and spandrels to central entrance. Limestone capping stones to piers and arch having limestone stepped approach and partially cobbled paved surface.
Appraisal
Glenbrook Terrace comprises eight similarly designed houses, though curiously there is some variation in their scale. While numbers two and three are three-bay, the remaining are two-bay, though numbers one and four are more substantial than the others. The tripartite window openings and canted bay windows maximise the light and views over the sea to the east and are typical of fashionable domestic architecture in nineteenth century resorts. Though some historic fabric has been replaced, the terrace remains an eye-catching addition to the streetscape, which is enhanced by the surviving timber sliding sash windows, slate roofs, decorative render detailing and red brick entrances.