Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

El Dorado / El Oro — Blackrock Road

house
View what I want to do
El Dorado / El Oro — Blackrock Road
Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Open the original picture · Website use allowed for educational or private purposes with source credit · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.
Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

Pair of semi-detached two-bay two-storey with attic houses, built 1904, with projecting front gables and canted bays to south elevations and returns and extensions to rear (north) elevations. Pitched slate roofs with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, central rendered chimneystack, timber bargeboards and terracotta finials to projecting gables and cast-iron rainwater goods with hopper heads to side elevations. Smooth render walls to ground floor with roughcast render to first floor and attic, moulded continuous sill course to first floor and attic levels and smooth render strapping to gable apex. Square-headed window openings with smooth render surrounds and one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Edwardian eight-over-one pane timber sliding sashes to attic levels. Recessed square-headed door openings with render pilasters, entablatures and dentilated pediments, half-glazed timber doors with sidelights and overlights, decorative floor tiles and limestone thresholds. Set back from the road with rendered boundary wall surmounted by cast-iron railings and having square-profile rendered piers.

This official record and map point do not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.