house

End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c.1870. One of terrace of four. Double-pile slate roof, hipped to north, yellow brick chimneystacks and yellow clay pots, cast-iron gutters on bracketed eaves and red brick sawtooth eaves course. Brown brick walling laid down in Flemish bond over granite plinth course with rendered walling to basement area. Square-headed window openings with gauged brick voussoirs, rendered reveals, masonry sills and replacement casement windows. Segmental-headed door opening in moulded render surround having render soffit and reveals. Replacement door flanked by engaged pilasters having recessed panels terminating in replacement brackets supporting replacement frieze and cornice, plain glazed overlight. Door opens onto granite platform and seven granite steps flanked to north by concrete wall, to south by cast-iron railings. Set back from road, bounded by moulded granite plinth wall surmounted by wrought-iron railings with spike finials, hoops and corner post. Lane to north of site.

The southern section of Seville Place was developed after the arrival of the railway in the 1830s-40s. This terrace, built in the second half of the nineteenth century, was part of a wave of development in the area in that period, perhaps spurred on by the construction of the nearby church of Saint Laurence O’Toole, and the ecclesiastical and educational buildings which followed it. A composed terrace of four, the terminating houses have a curious single-bay at the upper storey which contributes to the character and variety of the streetscape. The survival of the delicate wrought-iron railings and the sawtooth eaves course contributes to its artistic significance.