6 Manse Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A unified architectural group of brick built late Victorian two storey (+ attic) houses, set in a planned communal landscaped
setting on western side of Manse Road. There are two groups; Nos. 6 and 4 to right and Nos 12,10 and 8 to left; all share common details:

No 6. Three bays wide and the left one of a pair of mirror image properties. Pitched natural slate roof with red clay crested ridges, decorative (flues delineated by raised bricks) red brick chimney to left gable and similar to right at join with No.4. Eaves are three courses of decorative brick supporting half round metal gutters. To front pitch, over right bay, rising from just above eaves level is a dormer window. It has a pitched natural slate roof with decorative fretted timer bargeboard and drop finial. It has a pair of two paned side hung painted timber casements and painted timber cheeks.

Walls are red brick in English garden wall bond, with yellow brick detailing and a chamfered granite base course. Two storey canted left bay advances slightly under a large gable. Between ground and first floor are two courses of decorative yellow brick separated by two courses of red brick, and the left corner has stepped granite quoins. To ground floor right is a one storey canted bay window with moulded granite cill and flat concrete copped roof. The walls are as façade and the yellow coursing at first floor repeat over the window heads. It has a 2/2 sliding sash on its face and a 1/1 on each cheek. Its left cheek is incorporated into a modern painted timber and glass porch, which abuts the central bay. It has a modern glazed and panelled door and a felt roof. The original walls within are white painted. To first floor right over canted bay is a 2/2 sliding sash window, and over porch at first floor is a narrow 1/1 sash window.

The left bay has a two storey canted bay window abutting its advanced gable. The gable has details as façade with timber bargeboard with decorative cartouches and spiked finial. To centre of gable is a recessed roundel inset with a yellow and red brick panel. The canted bay window has walls, cills, windows and roof as right bay, but is two storeys and there is no string course at first floor, instead there are recessed brick panels dressed with yellow brick, two to front and one on each cheek.

Right gable forms party wall with No.4. Left gable is cement rendered with single 2/2 sliding sashes to ground and first floor left and two 1/1 sashes in attic gable.

Roof to rear has plastic rainwater goods. Rear elevation is cement rendered and is three bays (central one narrow). The right is abutted by a two-stage return, the first stage is two storey and gabled with a chimney on the ridge gable. Second stage is single storey with a half hipped natural slate roof. The central bay has a shallower return which rises higher (three storeys) with a flat roof over a service stair projection on its left cheek. The left bay is plain. All windows and doors ground floor are modern hinged casements, but those above are original. The rear yard is enclosed by a dashed wall with sheeted timber door to alley.

Setting: at front is a common landscaped lawn with driveways dissecting. A boundary wall in granite rubble with embattled coping encloses the whole common site. This has a pair of square gate piers to Manse Road but gates are gone. To rear (beyond carriageway) is a rear garden.

Historical information

One of five houses erected in 1888 by Samuel Shannon (occupant of HB16/03/016E). This house is captioned ‘Raneleagh’ on the 1901 OS map.

Primary sources:
1. PRONI - VAL 12B/19/14C, (1888 valuation) p.114.
2. PRONI - OS 10/3/55/16/1 (1901 OS map).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

One of a group of impressive, finely detailed buildings in an attractive setting which retain much of their original character.