Survey Data
Reg No
31208005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Anchor House
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1897
Coordinates
97955, 293875
Date Recorded
04/11/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1897, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. Now in occasional use. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stack having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, slightly sproketed eaves, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on roughcast eaves. Roughcast walls to front (south) elevation on rendered plinth with rendered strips to corners; cement rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central entrance hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with rendered chamfered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Newport with the architectural value of the composition, one annotated as "Anchor House" on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1897; published 1899), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on an expressed porch; and the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement overlooking the Owenndarrydivva or Newport River.