Survey Data
Reg No
50930086
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1815 - 1825
Coordinates
316522, 233139
Date Recorded
10/09/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1820, with two-stage two-storey brick return to north. Now in use as offices. M-profile slate roof set behind parapet wall with moulded granite coping and frieze. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks with lipped clay pots to east party wall. Parapet gutters and uPVC downpipes to rear. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with cement pointing. Moulded granite plinth course over rendered basement wall. Gauged brick square-headed window openings with granite sills and timber sash windows; original eight-over-eight pane to basement with iron grille and granite surround, twentieth-century replacement six-over-six pane sash windows to remainder, having ogee horns (three-over-three to third floor). Round-headed window opening to rear west-bay and some Wyatt-style timber sash windows to east-bay. Original wrought-iron balconettes to first floor of south elevation. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with masonry Doric doorcase comprising square-headed door opening flanked by half-fluted Doric columns supporting panelled lintel entablature and original cobwebbed fanlight. Original timber panelled door with eleven raised-and-fielded panels and brass door furniture opening onto granite platform and granite steps from street. Platform and basement enclosed by original wrought- and cast-iron railings set on granite plinth wall. Steel steps provide access to basement. Forming part of a continuous terrace of former townhouses lining north side of Fitzwilliam Square. Rendered wall and recent timber gates to south boundary on Pembroke Lane.
Appraisal
This former townhouse retains its overall external composition in addition to well executed iron work and a handsome doorcase and fanlight which forms the building's decorative focus. Built as a unified terrace comprising Nos. 61-64 (50930086-3), it contributes to the historic character of the square and the wider south Georgian core. Laid out in 1791 by the surveyors J & P Roe, Fitzwilliam Square was the last of the city’s Georgian squares to be completed. Development was staggered and progressed slowly until after the Napoleonic Wars.