Verbena

Terraced three-bay two-storey house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to ends. Square-headed central door opening with moulded rendered surround framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Street fronted with roughcast boundary wall to perimeter having concrete coping centred on looped wrought iron gate.

A house representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Courtown with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a restrained doorcase; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a seaside village street scene.