Survey Data
Reg No
15605161
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Public house
Date
1790 - 1810
Coordinates
271939, 127660
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay four-storey house, c.1800. Renovated, pre-1880, with pubfront inserted to ground floor. Reroofed, c.1950, with pubfront renovated. Refenestrated. Now disused. One of a group of four. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement fibre-cement slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond (shared) chimney stack having capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Timber pubfront, pre-1880, to ground floor with fluted engaged Ionic columns on padstones, replacement fixed-pane timber window, c.1950, timber panelled double doors having overlight, fascia having raised lettering, and lined moulded cornice. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
An elegantly appointed house of the middle size built as one of a group of four identical units (with 15605158 - 160) identified in the streetscape by attributes including the slender vertical quality of the massing, the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor in the Classical manner, the understated decorative detailing, and so on. However, following a number of renovation projects undertaken over the course of the mid to late twentieth century, including alteration works to a pretty pubfront of artistic design interest, the house remains of primary importance at present for the connections with a collective ensemble making a positive impression on the character of North Street.