Survey Data
Reg No
21511011
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1900 - 1920
Coordinates
156778, 157390
Date Recorded
10/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached two-bay two-storey red brick house, built c. 1910, facing west with a three-sided two-storey canted bay window, and a two-storey return built against neighbouring return. Single-storey extension to rear. Gabled natural slate roof with three-sided slate hip over bay window, terracotta ridge tiles, and a wrought-iron finial to apex of bay roof. Hipped return roof with red brick chimneystack to apex of gable, having dog-tooth cornice, and red brick chimneystack, shared with neighbouring house, to return. Cast-iron gutter on moulded red brick eaves, and cast-iron downpipe. Roof lights to rear span. Red brick faced front elevation laid in English garden wall bond, with moulded red brick plinth course, and yellow brick stringcourse at first floor level. Smooth rendered side and rear elevation with red brick quoining to northeast corner. Camber-arched window openings to front elevation with pre-cast notch and keystone detailed lintels, red brick reveals and canted red brick sills surrounding uPVC windows. Square-headed window openings elsewhere with rendered reveals, sills and uPVC windows. Slate lean-to porch roof supported on bracketed timber uprights with stop-chamfer detailing, shared with neighbouring house, gives access to front door. Glazed panelling and timber balustrade joins timber shafts. Segmental-arched front door opening, with red brick arch and reveals, and flush timber doorframe comprising two-pane frosted side lights over panelled timber bases, tripartite coloured glass margin-paned overlight and flat-panelled timber door with glazed upper panels and brass door furniture. Cast-iron cresting to porch roof. Front site enclosed by rendered wall with wrought-iron railings, terminating with pair of piers supporting modern timber pedestrian gate. Gated lane to side gives access to rear sites. Plank timber vehicular gates on flank boundary wall on rollers gives access to front site from lane. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate gives access to rear front site.
Appraisal
This house forms one component of a row of similarly scaled semi-detached houses, built in the first half of the twentieth century. It adheres to a building tradition that is typical of modestly-scaled suburban house design of the period. The replacement of the original windows, though reversible, has a negative effect on the character of the house.