Survey Data
Reg No
15505055
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
Date
1865 - 1885
Coordinates
305097, 121461
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached three-bay three-storey single-pile house, c.1875, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1840, on site. Reroofed, c.1975. Now disused. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement fibre-cement slate, c.1975, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having profiled capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, rendered coping, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with cast-iron tie bar to first floor. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills (now boarded-up). Square-headed door opening with cut-granite padstones (now boarded-up). Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A well composed house of modest size built as one of a pair (with 15505054) representing an important element of the mid to late nineteenth-century domestic architectural heritage of the locality possibly having origins in an earlier range indicated on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey. Exhibiting an understated design aesthetic, the architectural value of the house is established by attributes including the shallow plan form, the symmetrical arrangement of the openings with the diminishing in scale of those openings on each floor producing a graduated visual effect, the sparse surface articulation, and so on. Although much of the historic fabric has been concealed behind protective boarding, the house has traditionally been well maintained to present an early aspect with the elementary composition surviving in place, thereby upholding some of the character or integrity of the streetscape.