Survey Data
Reg No
50060257
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Cabra Terrace
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
314660, 235856
Date Recorded
27/08/2014
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c.1850, with return to rear (south) elevation. Now also accommodating offices. M-profile pitched roof partially hidden behind brick parapet wall with granite coping. Brick chimneystacks to party walls and cast-iron rainwater goods. Brown brick laid in Flemish bond to ground and first floors with granite plinth course over ruled and lined rendered walls to basement. Square-headed openings to ground and first floor with brick voussoirs, rendered reveals, granite sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with horns. Cast-iron window guards to basement. Segmental-headed door opening with brick voussoirs and moulded surround. Timber panelled door flanked by timber panelled pilasters with carved foliate console brackets supporting timber frieze and cornice with petal fanlight having stained-glass panes to margin. Granite platform and granite steps, shared with No. 12 to east. Cast-iron bootscrape and wrought-iron handrail. Cast-iron railings on granite plinth course to enclosed front garden with matching pedestrian gate.
Appraisal
No.14 Cabra Road was constructed as part of a terrace of five houses and likely the work of the same builder or developer, giving rise to a uniform terrace which maintains the same roof parapet line, window alignments and doorcases. The houses would originally have been developed for middle class families who were leaving the city for new suburban developments along key access routes or by the coast. The terrace remains relatively intact with the doorcases and timber four-panelled doors of particular note. The use of stained glass, which became more common throughout the Victorian period, is evident in the margins of the fanlights.