Survey Data

Reg No

50070482


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Artistic


Original Use

House


In Use As

Apartment/flat (converted)


Date

1770 - 1790


Coordinates

315586, 235535


Date Recorded

27/10/2012


Date Updated

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Description

Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former house, built c.1780, now in use as flats. Pitched roofs, parallel to street to front (north), perpendicular to street to rear. Parapet with granite capping to front elevation. Brown brick chimneystack shared with property to east. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond. Cut granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings having patent reveals and granite sills. Replacement uPVC windows. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows. Segmental-arched door opening having painted masonry doorcase with engaged Ionic columns. Petal fanlight. Timber panelled door. Steps to entrance platform having asphalt surfacing. Cast-iron railings on granite capping to cut granite plinth wall. Cast-iron newel post to corner. Basement area enclosed from pavement by rendered plinth wall with cut granite coping, with recent metal railings and gate. Recent external concrete stairs to basement area from pavement. Square-headed door opening to basement having recent timber door. Cast-iron coal hole cover set in granite pavement to front of house.

Appraisal

This elegantly proportioned former house makes an important contribution to the streetscape. Its window and door openings are typical of its type. It shares details with its neighbours such as the treatment of the entrance and the third bay at ground floor level, both elements enliven an otherwise austere facade. 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. It marks a gentle transition from the lower end-of-terrace buildings to the central taller buildings of the terrace.