Survey Data
Reg No
41304030
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1900 - 1910
Coordinates
250139, 325895
Date Recorded
19/12/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Mid-terrace two-bay two-storey Arts and Crafts-style house, constructed 1905, with box-bay window to front and recessed entrance under lean-to hipped roof that is continuous to other houses in terrace. Single-bay dormered single-storey return to rear, halved with neighbour. Pitched fibre-cement slate roofs with sprocketed overhanging eaves, brick chimneystack, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Return has half-hipped roof. Triangular-fronted dormer window to front roof slope, with slate-hung sides, halved with neighbour, and modern triangular dormer to rear. Roughcast rendered walls. Lean-to roof supported on carved timber bracket over entrance. Bay window fully glazed, with replacement uPVC glazing mimicking original, above rendered base. Square-headed window openings elsewhere with brick sills, first floor having one double-light window and one single-light first floor and one double window to dormer, both of latter forming compositions with neighbouring house, and upper gable has four-light window, all of these windows having six-pane replacement uPVC frames. Recessed main entrance doorway framed by brick piers with moulded arrises, with segmental brick arch. Inner side of porch has replacement uPVC door and sidelights. House fronts onto The Diamond, with small garden to front with brick plinth and wrought-iron railing having cast-iron ornaments.
Appraisal
This house is a one of three similar houses in a short terrace of Edwardian Arts and Crafts domestic architecture on this most prominent of sites close to the summit of the distinctive Diamond of Clones. It and its neighbours replaced a thatched terrace of traditional town houses and is probably the work of the architect, William Scott (1871-1921). Several Arts and Crafts motifs such as the box-bay window and prominent gable and dormer adorn this building and give it, along with the others on this short terrace, an architectural quality and distinction that is appropriate and adds to the notable variety of styles visible around The Diamond.