
What is recorded here
Semi-detached two-bay three-storey house, built c. 1910, facing south with a two-storey three-sided canted bay window to a full-height gabled breakfront. Entrance porch with covered balcony above. Two-storey return. Hipped gabled slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and a substantial red brick chimneystack on party wall shared with neighbouring house. Profiled cast-iron rainwater goods and a timber finial to front gable. Over-hanging eaves to front with timber bracket supports to gable. Dormer to rear span, c. 1970. Pebbledash rendered walls to front elevation at first and second floor level, with red brick laid in English garden wall bond to ground floor level of façade, side and rear elevation of main house and return. Timber struts rise from bressumer on gable of breakfront. Varied window types including elaborate timber casements to bay window at ground floor level, fixed-pane window to oculus over first floor balcony, tripartite part segmental-headed opening with uPVC casement. Flush entrance porch with limestone lintel, glazed aluminium porch doors. Square-headed door opening, with flat-panelled timber door leaf having glazed upper panels and glazed overlight. Site enclosed from Ennis Road by snecked rubble limestone plinth wall with coping supporting wrought-iron railings. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate with name plate hung from cast-iron gate posts. Rusticated corner limestone pier with embedded ball finial.
Elaborately detailed early twentieth-century suburban house, forming one of a row of semi-detached houses of similar scale and detailing. Fine plinth wall and railings run the length of the row. The development, by Clifford Smith, is evidence of the middle class wealth in the City at the time.
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