Survey Data
Reg No
22821027
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1820
Coordinates
225996, 93110
Date Recorded
20/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, c.1810. Renovated, c.1985, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Extensively renovated, post-1999. Pitched (shared) roof behind parapet with replacement artificial slate, post-1999, clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, post-1999. Painted rendered walls (possibly replacement, post-1999) with zinc-line coping to parapet. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, replacement rendered surrounds, post-1999, and replacement 6/6 timber sash windows, post-1999. Replacement timber shopfront, c.1985, to ground floor with inscribed pilasters, fixed-pane timber display window, timber panelled and glazed timber panelled doors, fascia over having consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A well-proportioned house built as part of an early nineteenth-century urban planning project initiated by the Duke of Devonshire centred on Grattan (originally Market) Square. Extensively renovated in the late twentieth century the replacement fittings to the openings to the upper floors have been installed in keeping with the original integrity of the design. However, the replacement shopfront is of little design merit, the crude proportions and detailing contributing little to the streetscape value at street level.