Survey Data
Reg No
50011004
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1775 - 1795
Coordinates
315795, 235242
Date Recorded
08/09/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay four-storey house over basement, built c.1785, having with full-height semi-circular bay to rear. Now in multiple occupancy. Built as one of pair with No. 6. Pitched slate roof concealed behind parapet wall with granite coping. Stepped rendered brick chimneystack with clay pots to party wall, shared with No. 6. Handmade red brick walls laid in Flemish bond on moulded granite plinth course over rendered and painted walls to basement level. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals and granite sills. Replacement timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to basement and second floors, nine-over-six to ground floor, nine-over-nine to first floor, and three-over-three to top floor. Decorative wrought and cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Pedimented painted stone doorcase comprising reproduction painted timber panelled door flanked by engaged Doric columns on plinth blocks to lintel cornice, with entablature blocks forming support to open-bed pediment housing original leaded spoked fanlight. Door opens onto replacement granite-flagged platform with four replacement nosed granite steps, bridging basement, enclosed to either side by original wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth wall and cast-iron corner posts. Railing encloses basement area with matching iron gate. Tiled steps descending to half-landing shared with No. 6, returning to basement level with timber and steel handrail.
Appraisal
This house is part of a stepped terrace developed from 1768 on plots laid out on the steep avenue leading to the Mount Eccles Estate. North Great Georges Street was laid out by the Archdall family, in response to the expansion of the Gardiner Estate. Built as a pair with No. 6 the development of multiple lots by a single lessee was a common practice in the late eighteenth century. The building was divided into apartments c.1995, having been saved from demolition by the North Great George’s Street Preservation Society. Substantially altered, it retains an original semi-circular apse to the rear, a pleasing modification of the traditional 'two room' Georgian plan. The retention of a pedimented doorcase, timber sash windows and the stone and ironwork to the entrance and basement enhances this building which forms an integral part of this well-preserved street.