Survey Data
Reg No
21513009
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1770 - 1800
Coordinates
157843, 157339
Date Recorded
15/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay four-storey over concealed basement red brick building, built c. 1785, with original limestone doorcase incorporated within partially surviving nineteenth-century shopfront. Pitched artificial slate roof behind parapet wall with red brick chimneystack to south party wall and limestone coping to parapet wall. Façade faced in red brick laid in Flemish bond, with limestone coping to parapet wall; re-pointed in cement; cement render applied to elevation at first floor level. Square-headed window openings, red brick flat arches, patent cement rendered reveals, painted limestone sills, and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Nineteenth-century timber shopfront comprising original fascia board with enriched cornice standing on replacement or relined pilasters to either end. Timber-framed display window with tiled stallriser and metal roller shutter blind, c. 1990. Shopfront incorporates original eighteenth-century painted limestone lugged and kneed architrave doorcase with original multiple-panelled raised and fielded panelled timber door with four-pane overlight.
Appraisal
While this terraced building has lost its original sash windows, the rare survival of the limestone lugged and kneed doorcase is highly significant. It is one of the few occasions where the introduction of a nineteenth-century shopfront to a Georgian townhouse incorporates such an important element. It is also significant for it provides an opportunity to imagine how the intact Georgian streetscape may have appeared in the eighteenth century.