Survey Data
Reg No
31204085
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1900 - 1905
Coordinates
124496, 318835
Date Recorded
09/12/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built 1903; extant 1926. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a terrace of three. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in red brick Running bond chimney stacks having overgrown corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal hopper and fluted downpipe. Rendered walls (upper floors) with rendered "bas-relief" strips to ends supporting rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-limestone sills[?], and concealed dressings with hood mouldings over framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Street fronted with cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a terrace of three identical units representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of Ballina with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form; and the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression: meanwhile, aspects of the composition, in particular the Tudor-esque "stucco" refinements, clearly illustrate the continued development or "improvement" of the house. Although much modified at street level, those works involving the substitution of a shopfront of artistic interest, the elementary form and massing survive intact overhead together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in O'Rahilly Street.