Survey Data
Reg No
50010575
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1690 - 1740
Coordinates
315324, 234609
Date Recorded
25/11/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay four-storey house, built c.1715, possibly as pair with No. 56, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Shared flat roof hidden behind rendered parapet wall with painted granite coping. Façade slightly advanced beyond the house to north with cast-iron hopper and downpipe to re-entrant angle. Painted cement rendered walls with some cast-iron tie-plates. Square-headed window openings with granite and concrete sills and replacement uPVC windows. Replacement timber shopfront with lead-lined fascia and door opening with overlight to south bay giving access to upper floors.
Appraisal
This building, although it has lost much of its external historic character, is documented to be of early origin and retaining an early timber stair. The building forms part of the rhythmic vertical streetscape that gives Capel Street its early character. Capel Street was laid out in 1680 by Humphrey Jervis as a prestigious residential street and named after Arthur Capel the Earl of Essex. By 1800 the street had become one of the city’s principal commercial thoroughfares with the current plot ratios reflecting the layout of that period.