8 Cloughmore Terrace

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Right one of a terrace of eight identical three storey/ two bay late 19thC houses on N side of Church Street.

Pitched natural slate roof is hipped to right end and has a large rendered chimney to left end of ridge and another two on rear pitch; one at wall head and the other just below the ridge.

Moulded render eaves course carries ogee rainwater goods. Walls are lined rendered and painted with stepped quoins to right corner. Continuous cill course at first floor level. Left bay is narrower than the right one and contains the main entrance set in a semicircular-headed opening with moulded stucco architrave and with decorative key block. Panelled door with beaded muntin and two raised, fielded and bolection moulded bottom panels, single acid etched top panel. Over is a stained glass radial fanlight. Directly above is a single 1/1 uPVC window to first floor with an architrave as the doorcase. At second floor is a single 1/1 timber sliding sash window, which is slightly diminished in height.

The right bay has a canted bay window rising full height, with canted roof tied into main roof and sharing common eaves. Each face of the bay window has a 1/1 window, to ground and first floors these are uPVC, at on second floor they are timber sliding sashes with horns. Those to second floor are slightly diminished in height.

Small front garden is enclosed by a finely dressed granite dwarf wall that carries modern hoop topped railings.

Left gable is party wall with adjacent house.

Rear elevation is abutted to left by a two storey rear return. Remaining wall at rear is rendered and painted to ground and first floors only. It has a modern door at ground floor right a 2/2 sash window to first floor and between first and second floors is a modern glazed escape door. Door is served by a large metal staircase, which also serves a door on the right cheek of the rear return. Return is rendered and painted and all windows are modern and some are in enlarged openings. There are three windows to ground floor and two to first floor of the left cheek (onto Great George’s Street North). Its right cheek has a single window at ground floor and the escape door at first floor. End gable is blank.

Rear of back yard has a sheeted door onto Great George’s Street North and is enclosed by a two storey outbuilding (of no interest).

Right elevation fronts onto Great George’s Street North. It has walls as front elevation, with stepped quoins to left and right sides, but not at ground floor right where wall continues as a rear return (see later). There are two openings to each floor. At ground floor left is a uPVC window and at right is a semicircular headed coachway with similar architrave and keystone as the front door case. Coachway has been infilled with a rendered wall and a modern uPVC window with sheeted head above. First floor windows are 1/1 uPVC casements and those to second floor are 1/1 sliding sashes.

Historical information

First appears in the Valuation Book entry for 1879.

Primary sources:
1. Valuation Revision book (PRONI, VAL/12B/22/23B, p.141).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
H-. Alterations detracting from building
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

One of eight houses in a terrace on Church Street. The terrace has been affected by alterations but is still a significant set piece in the town. This house has had all of its front windows altered. Interior is also much altered and the house has been subdivided into three flats