Survey Data
Reg No
21521051
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1890 - 1910
Coordinates
156985, 156093
Date Recorded
27/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey red brick house, built c. 1900, with a full-height three-sided bay window surmounted by a gabled dormer attic storey, built as part of a uniform terrace of seven houses. Shared gabled return. Pitched gabled artificial slate roof with intersecting gabled dormer roof and roof light to front and rear span, c. 2000. Red brick chimneystack to apex of gabled side elevation and return, each having stringcourse, dog-tooth cornice and plain clay pots. Cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond with corbelled brick eaves course, with moulded red brick sill course doubling as frieze architrave. Dormer gable treated as a moulded rendered broken base pediment with finial to apex. Cement rendered rear elevation and return, recently carried out. Square-headed window openings, with continuous limestone lintel bands at ground and first floor level, red brick reveals, continuous limestone or moulded red brick sill courses, uPVC windows to front elevation and rear elevation, with timber casements to dormer attic window. Original two-over-two timber sash window survive to rear elevation. Partially glazed timber-framed entrance porch with turned plain timber vertical supports joined timber balustrade. Poured concrete entrance platform. Plank timber partition divides porches. Square-headed door opening, continuous limestone ashlar lintel, reveals and limestone threshold step. Plain doorframe with raised and fielded panelled timber door with stop-chamfer detailing and frosted glass to upper panels. Plain glass overlight. Front site partially enclosed by red brick faced plinth wall and panelled red brick pier both with painted coping supporting Art Nouveau inspired cast-iron railings. Name plaque to pier with carved lettering reads: 5 LAUREL VILLAS.
Appraisal
An example within this uniform terrace of houses. The group composition of which is emphasised by the repetition of vertical elements, i.e., the full-height bay windows, the horizontal limestone lintel bands, first floor limestone sill course and red brick sill course at attic level. The loss of original timber sash windows detracts from the character of the building and terrace. House appears to have been recently refurbished.