Survey Data

Reg No

11814046


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social


Original Use

House


In Use As

House


Date

1830 - 1850


Coordinates

289354, 219530


Date Recorded

21/05/2002


Date Updated

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Description

Terraced three-bay two-storey building, c.1840, retaining early aspect with timber shopfront to ground floor. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves course. Rendered walls. Rusticated rendered quoins to ends. Painted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Early 1/1 timber sash windows. Timber shopfront to ground floor with fluted pilasters having consoles, fixed-pane display windows and glazed timber doors with fascia over having fluted stop ends and moulded cornice. Replacement glazed name plate, c.1985. Road fronted. Concrete brick footpath to front.

Appraisal

This building is a fine and well-maintained symmetrical edifice of graceful proportions that retains most of its original form and character. The building retains an early – possibly original – shopfront to ground floor and is of social and historic interest as one of the earliest purpose-built commercial and residential buildings in the locality. Many further early or original features and materials remain in situ, including timber sash fenestration and a slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. The building is an important and integral component of the streetscape of Main Street North, continuing the established streetline and contributing considerably to the varied roofline of the terrace.