Survey Data
Reg No
31212189
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Date
1700 - 1838
Coordinates
100389, 284107
Date Recorded
11/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. In alternative use, 1897. For sale, 2008. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls with bull nose-detailed rendered panelled quoins to ends. Timber shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan centred on timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement with concrete (ground floor) or cut-limestone (first floor) sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Street fronted with flagged footpath to front having cut-limestone kerbing.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the built heritage of Westport with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression with those openings showing elegant tripartite glazing patterns. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and allegedly to the interior, including a Classically-composed shopfront of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in Altamont Street at street level.