Survey Data
Reg No
31208006
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Sunnyside Lodge
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Convent/nunnery
Date
1840 - 1897
Coordinates
97991, 293880
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 centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. In alternative use, 2010. Vacated, 2011. For sale, 2012. Pitched slate roof with pressed iron-covered clay ridge tiles, rendered off-central chimney stack having chevron- or saw tooth-detailed corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron hopper and downpipes. Rendered walls with rendered quoins to ends. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with rendered boundary wall to perimeter having concrete coping.
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 "Sunnyside Lodge" on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1897; published 1899), suggested by such traits as the compact plan form centred on an expressed porch; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been reasonably well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement overlooking the Owennadarrydivva or Newport River.