Survey Data
Reg No
31206011
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Moybrook
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1910 - 1915
Coordinates
127063, 304184
Date Recorded
09/12/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two- or three-bay two-storey mill manager's house, built 1912; extant 1925, on an L-shaped plan with single- or two-bay two-storey gabled projecting end bay. Renovated to accommodate continued private residential use. Replacement pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on roughcast chamfered plinth with applied "timber frame" to gables. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of street in landscaped grounds with rosette-detailed cast-iron chamfered piers to perimeter having finial capping supporting spade-detailed wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
A house erected for Francis Sherry (b. 1868), 'Assistant Woollen Mill Manager' (NA 1911), representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century domestic built heritage of Foxford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact angular plan form; and the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor with the principal "apartments" defined by polygonal bay windows. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character of integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in Providence Road.