Survey Data
Reg No
22803028
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1850 - 1870
Coordinates
246636, 115323
Date Recorded
23/07/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey mill worker’s cottage, c.1860, retaining early fenestration with three-bay single-storey return to south-east. Reroofed, c.1985. One of a terrace of forty-eight. Shallow segmental barrel roof (shared) with replacement felt, c.1985, rendered chimney stacks, and concealed rainwater goods in overhanging timber eaves having pierced scalloped apron. Painted roughcast walls over rubble sandstone construction with rendered strips to ends, and band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, rendered surrounds, and 1/1 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door, c.1985, and overlight. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
An attractive, small-scale house of balanced Classical proportions, built as part of a planned terrace of forty-eight uniform houses (with 22803021 - 27/WD-08-03-21 - 27) sponsored by the Malcomson family providing accommodation for workers at the local industrial complex. Well maintained, the house retains its original form and massing, together with important salient features and materials, including the pierced scalloped apron to the eaves, which was particular to Portlaw, and which enhance the historic quality of the site. The house, together with the remainder of the terrace, is of particular importance for its contribution to a planned 'model' village (the second at Portlaw), the shallow segmental barrel roofline producing an attractive quality in the streetscape.