6 Seaview

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Left one of a terrace of three three-storey/ two-bay late 19thC houses facing the sea on NW side of street, each having similar but individual architectural treatment.

Pitched natural slate roof with tiled left verge and large rendered chimney to left end. Rear pitch has a modern skylight at left side. Moulded overhanging eaves course carries crested gutters, which drain into a decorative hopper between the two bays. Chamfered square in section down-pipe is secured with decorative brackets and cast decorative hopper head below eaves cornice.

Front wall is rendered and painted, with band rustication to ground floor and lined to upper floor. Chamfered basecourse and a frieze below the continuous cill courses on the upper floors. Right bay is narrower than the left one and contains the main entrance in a shouldered opening with moulded arris. Door is modern stained framed t+g timber with matching timber glazed sidelights (top half glazed) and a three-piece transom over all. Directly above is a single 1/1 sliding sash window to each upper floor. Both have stop-end chamfered reveals and that to second floor is slightly diminished in height.

The left 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 sliding sash window with horns. Again they all have stop-end chamfered reveals and those to second floor are slightly diminished in height. All have stop-chamfered reveals. There is a brass plaque and a wall-mounted carriage lamp to left of front door. A modern timber sign is applied to left side of each upper floor.

Left gable is dashed and painted and has a large modern advertising board at first floor level.

Right gable forms party wall with no.7 Seaview (HB16/12/021B).

Rear elevation is abutted to left by a two-storey return. The exposed right section is smooth rendered and painted. It advances out slightly to ground and first floors with a flat roof. Each floor has two windows. All are 2/2 sliding sashes (vertically divided) with painted cills. The ground floor left one has been converted to a fire escape under a modern lean-to (of no interest). The second floor left one has been converted to a doorway with a modern glazed timber escape door onto an external metal staircase.

The return has a pitched natural slate roof, and rendered and painted walls. It has numerous 1/1 sliding sash windows although some have been altered. Its right elevation has a modern door at ground floor left, then a modern timber casement window, and at right is a narrow 1/1 sliding sash. There are four sliding sashes to first floor; the middle two being narrower than the others. The second floor two 2/2 sliding sashes. This elevation supports a modern metal escape stair.

The end (NW) gable of the return has two modern casements to ground floor, first floor has a small modern casement to left and a 2/2 sliding sash to its right. Second floor has a fire escape to the left and two modern casements to its right. Door is served by a metal escape stair.

Front garden is enclosed to right side by modern wall and the front is open to the street. Left side is bounded by modern railings on dwarf wall marking boundary of Town Park. Approach to house is brick paved and has two reproduction lamp standards and two large modern signs at the street edge.

The SE boundary of the rear yard (to the town park) has a rubble stone wall, which has been raised with rendered concrete blockwork. Enclosing NW end of yard is a two-storey outbuilding of little interest.

Historical information

First cited in the 1884 Valuation revision book. It was the last of the three houses in this terrace to be built, its neighbour (HB16/12/021B) first being cited in 1883, and the house at the opposite end (HB16/12/021C) in 1882.

Primary sources
1. Valuation revision books (PRONI: VAL 12B/22/23D, p.209).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Left one of a terrace of three three-storey/ two-bay late 19thC houses. This end of terrace house is retains much detail and its plan form.