Survey Data
Reg No
15605189
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1890 - 1910
Coordinates
272252, 127666
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached two-bay two-storey house, c.1900, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1840, on site. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, replacement rendered (shared) chimney stack, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening in elliptical-headed recess with slightly splayed reveals, and glazed timber panelled door. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A picturesque small-scale house built as one of a pair (with 15605190) possibly having origins in earlier predecessors identified on archival editions of the Ordnance Survey. Having been well maintained, the house presents an early aspect with the simple architectural attributes surviving in place, including a pared-down 'Morrison doorcase' characteristic of the locality, together with most of the historic or original fabric, thereby upholding the positive impression made on the character of Mary Street Upper.