Survey Data
Reg No
41308060
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1880 - 1890
Coordinates
282870, 319523
Date Recorded
01/10/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay single-storey former worker's house with dormer attic, built c.1885. Pitched slate roof with crested black clay ridge, brick chimneystacks with plain over-sailing courses, one with cruciform plan, and cast-iron ogee-profile gutters fixed to exposed overhanging rafter ends with cast-iron downpipes. Dormer to rear has catslide roof. Square-headed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns. Front dormer has details similar to house roof but with pierced timber bargeboards missing finial. Squared rubble limestone walls, whitewashed to rear, with brick dressings to all openings. Square-headed window openings, paired to ground floor, with painted stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash frames having ogee horns throughout. Square-headed doorway with possibly original battened timber door with two-pane overlight. Catslide slate-roofed canopy over door held on carved timber brackets supported on stone corbels, otherwise having similar detailing to house roof.
Appraisal
This house is part of a terrace of former workers' houses. It retains most of its original historic fabric and features from a time when estate housing design was especially aesthetically pleasing, the colours and textures adding visual interest to the streetscape. The retention of its timber battened door and timber sash windows enhances the building's heritage value.