Survey Data
Reg No
31204121
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1931 - 1950
Coordinates
125308, 319334
Date Recorded
10/12/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, post-1931, on a rectangular plan. Pitched slate roof with roll moulded clay or terracotta ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered gritdashed roughcast walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central open internal porch with "terrazzo" step threshold, and concealed dressings with hood moulding over. Square-headed door opening with timber mullions supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door having stained glass sidelights on panelled risers below stained glass overlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Set back from street in landscaped grounds with gritdashed roughcast boundary wall to perimeter having rendered coping.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the twentieth-century domestic built heritage of Ballina with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling the contemporary Auburn (post-1931) in Bury Street (see 31204030), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a restrained doorcase; the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with the principal "apartments" defined by Classically-detailed bay windows; and the decorative timber work embellishing the roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in Howley Street.