Survey Data
Reg No
15605147
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1815 - 1835
Coordinates
272016, 127542
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced single-bay four-storey house, c.1825. Renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Refenestrated. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond (shared) chimney stacks, coping to party wall, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls over semi-coursed random rubble stone construction with concealed red brick quoins to ends. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor with panelled (hollow) pilasters on padstones having decorative consoles, fixed-pane (three-light) display window, glazed timber panelled door on cut-granite step having overlight, and fascia having lined moulded cornice. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
An amiable modest-scale house built as one of a pair (with 15605148) identified in the streetscape by attributes including the slender vertical emphasis of the massing, the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor in the Classical manner, and so on. Although compromised by the introduction of replacement fittings to the openings, the simple architectural attributes nevertheless prevail together with a pretty shopfront of artistic interest displaying good quality traditional craftsmanship making a pleasing impression in Mary Street at street level.