house

Terraced three-bay three-storey former house, built in 1863 as one of an (originally) uniform row of twelve, now is use as a hairdressers shop with offices over. The façade is finished in brick and painted render with moulded window surrounds, and a parapet with eaves cornice. The roof is hidden behind the parapet and has shared rendered chimneystacks. The ground floor level is largely taken up with a large timber shopfront of c.1995, whilst the original entrance (which leads to the offices) is to the east of this and consists of a panelled timber door with moulded entablature supported on decorative brackets, and a plain segmental fanlight The windows are flat-headed and have two over two timber sash frames. The surrounds to the first floor windows incorporate cornice-like hoods on decorative brackets. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The building has a street frontage, the original front garden having been paved over.

Quinsborough Road is undoubtedly the most architecturally impressive of Bray’s main thoroughfares, largely due to its three grand late 1850s / early 1860s terraces. Of the three this is the most altered, all bar two of the properties having been given over to commercial use, with many unsympathetic shopfronts inserted and front gardens lost; however the Regency style grandeur of the row is still evident and the terrace continues to make an important contribution to the streetscape. Apart from the shopfron, the front elevation of this property is original.