146 Eastgate

House, circa 1830s, with a section to the rear (south) containing a cast iron tie dated 1841 and late 19th and 20th century additions. The house is built of brick with a slate roof, while the southern section is tiled.

EXTERIOR

The building is set at an angle to the street, with its front elevation facing the corner of Eastgate and Maiden Row. The early 19th century house is constructed of high quality brick laid in Flemish bond. It comprises two storeys with cellars and is L-shaped with shallow pitched, hipped slate roofs. The section to the south, set into the L, has a pitched tiled roof. There are three ornate chimney stacks above the main ridge aligned south-west to north-east, and a single stack above the ridge of the tiled roof. The main slate roof features deep bracketed eaves.

The front door is reached by steps rising from the street and has a shouldered architrave, as do the windows to the ground floor of this elevation and the north-east elevation. First floor windows have simple moulded architraves, while the south-west elevation of this range is blind. The front door is four-panelled with the upper two panes glazed, with a glazed rectangular overlight. To its right is a speaking tube and night bell. Above the door is a canopy supported on scrolled consoles; the top of the canopy forms a balcony with an ornate iron work balustrade. An arched opening onto the balcony contains French windows and a lunette overlight. The arch has a raised keystone and the doors are flanked by pilasters. Windows flank either side of the front door and balcony. Plain bands run at cill level and below the eaves brackets continuously around all four elevations. The north-east elevation features a double-height bow window with three windows to both ground and first floors, and a ground floor bow with flat roof and wide bracketed eaves with band below, replicating the house roof. The south-east elevation has a six over six unhorned sash window; all other windows in the circa 1830 house are single-paned unhorned sashes.

The southern section is built of red-brown brick laid in English Garden bond. Its main elevation faces south-west and has a dentilled cornice below the eaves with two over two and four over eight sash windows alternating, two of each. The ground floor has three four over eight sashes, that to the north slightly higher than the other two. Above the lintel of this window is a circular cast iron end of a tie, dated 1841. All these windows are under segmental brick arches. To the north of this, the late 19th century addition to the south-east elevation is clearly visible in the brickwork. Its north face contains a door with a plain architrave and canopy supported on simple scrolled brackets. To the south of the 19th century addition is a 20th century single storey lean-to with slate roof.

INTERIOR

The ground floor plan consists of two rooms to either side of a central entrance hall, at the end of which is a step up to a staircase hall, also with a room to either side. The ceiling of the entrance hall has a deep moulded cornice and the floor is tiled; the front door upper panels and overlight are glazed with stained and plain glass in a geometric pattern. The doors to the front rooms flanking the hall have six double recessed panels and retain original door furniture. Both rooms contain ornate plaster ceiling roses and deep moulded cornices, though the original fireplaces were removed in the late 20th century and have been replaced with reclaimed examples of varying dates.

The opening between the entrance and stair halls has ornate consoles to either side. The room to the left of the stair hall has a door with five fielded panels and contains a cast iron fireplace and a slightly less elaborate ceiling rose than those to the front rooms. The door to the room to the right is similar to those to the front rooms and has a decorative brass fingerplate. The panelling and fireplace are not original. The service rooms to the back contain little historic detail.

To the right of the stair hall is an open tread dog leg stair with a handrail with volute end and curtail step, ornate newell post and twisted balusters with base and tops decorated with delicate tendril work. At mezzanine level a door gives access to rooms to the rear; there is a narrow arched window with coloured margin lights at the turn of the stair, and a domed roof light above. The landing has a single room to either side; an opening between the landing and a corridor giving access to three rooms at the front of the house has decorative consoles similar to those to the ground floor.

The cellars have brick arches and niches for storage.

SUBSIDIARY ITEMS

To the north and west of the house is a low brick wall, towards the corner of the street meeting square brick piers capped with stone. These are set wide apart at the pavement, with walls curving inwards towards the house to either side of the steps that rise to the front door. To the south of the steps is a door to the garden.