Reg No
50070467
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1800
Coordinates
315466, 235588
Date Recorded
18/11/2012
Date Updated
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Terraced three-bay four-storey over basement house, built c.1790. Hipped and pitched complex-plan roof having parapet with granite capping to front (north) elevation. Rendered chimneystack shared with property to west. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond. Painted cut granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings having granite sills. Timber sash windows, three-over-three panes to third floor, nine-over-six panes to first floor, six-over six panes to other openings. Round-headed door opening having painted masonry surround with engaged Ionic columns supporting fluted frieze with paterae. Petal fanlight. Timber panelled door. Granite steps to entrance platform. Cast-iron railings on granite plinth wall to steps having decorative corner posts. Basement area enclosed from pavement by granite plinth wall with cast-iron railings. Square-headed door opening to basement having recent metal door. Square-headed openings to under pavement stores. Concrete paving to external basement area.
This generously proportioned house makes an important contribution to the streetscape. It retains many early features including sash windows, Ionic door surround, railings and basement area. Eccles Street was laid out in 1772 by the Gardiner Estate. It was to be an arterial route leading to Gardiner's ambitious yet unrealised Royal Circus, planned for the north-west end of Eccles Street. The south side of the street is an impressive, almost entirely, late eighteenth-century terrace with taller buildings to the centre of the terrace.