Survey Data
Reg No
50010097
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
316738, 235193
Date Recorded
03/10/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c.1840, with two-storey shared rear return. Built as one of terrace of ten similar houses and now in commercial office use. M-profile roof, hipped to north of rear pitch, hidden behind parapet wall with cement coping and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to south end. Two stepped part rendered brick chimneystacks to south party wall having terracotta pots. Replacement brown brick walls laid in stretcher bond on replacement granite plinth course above rendered basement with rusticated soldier quoins to south end. Rendered walls to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with replacement architrave surrounds, granite sills and replacement timber sash windows, ground floor window having replacement cornice. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with replacement timber door, replacement timber doorcase and replacement leaded fanlight. Door opens onto shared granite platform with three granite steps bridging basement, further granite platform with cast-iron coal hole cover and further granite step to street. Platform and front garden enclosed by replacement cast-iron railings on replacement granite plinth wall.
Appraisal
Named after Viscount Amiens the first Earl of Aldborough of Aldborough House, this street was originally the coastal route north, and known as 'The Strand'. This house forms part of a terrace of ten paired two-storey houses, abutted to either end by modern commercial buildings. Built as a modest townhouse, the building is now in use as offices with the loss of most original fabric. However, the overall composition remains intact and as part of the greater terrace plays its part in retaining a domestic appearance on a streetscape marred by several recent commercial developments of a wholly different scale.