Survey Data
Reg No
31204043
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1838
Coordinates
124517, 318920
Date Recorded
12/12/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey townhouse, extant 1838. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a pair. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered cut-limestone eaves[?] retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-one timber sash (first floor) or replacement uPVC casement (top floor) windows. Interior including (upper floors): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Street fronted with cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A townhouse erected as one of a pair (including 31204042) representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Ballina with the architectural value of the composition, one of the 'many new houses built [within the last ten years] by merchants and others engaged in trade and commerce' (Lewis 1837 I, 104), suggested by such traits as the compact plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior: the gradual introduction of replacement fittings to the openings, however, has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a townhouse forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Pearse Street.