17 Seaview

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Second house from right end in a terrace of six similar three storey/ two bay late 19thC houses facing the sea on NW side of street.

Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimney to right end. Moulded overhanging eaves course carries half-round plastic gutters on advanced eaves.

Front wall is rendered and painted. Continuous moulded cill courses to the upper floors. Left bay is narrower than the right one and contains the main entrance in a semi-elliptical headed opening. Modern six-panelled door has flanked by sidelights (with aprons) under a plain fanlight. Directly above is a modern top-hung timber window to each upper floor. That to second floor is slightly diminished in height.

The right bay has a canted bay window rising full height, with canted natural slate roof tied into main roof and sharing common eaves. Each face has a modern top-hung timber window. The side cheeks are narrower than the front one and those to second floor are slightly diminished in height.

A rendered dwarf wall with modern steel railings encloses the front garden.

Left gable is party wall with No.16 Seaview (HB16/12/017D).

Right gable is party wall with No.18 Seaview (HB16/12/017F).

Rear elevation was not inspected.

Historical information

First appears in the Valuation revision book entry form 1877, along with No.18. This was the first pair in this terrace of six houses to be built, the adjoining pair being (Nos 15 and 16) being erected in 1878 and the last (Nos 13 and 14) in 1880.

Primary sources
1. Valuation revision book (PRONI: VAL 12B/22/23B, p.185.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Although this terrace house has been altered, its height and scale are in character with the rest of the buildings along the sea front. However, its late date and modernisation mean that it is not of special architectural or historic interest.