35 Patrick St

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Left one of a pair of town houses symmetrically arranged around a central coach arch and fronting the east side of Patrick St. This house comprises a three-storey/ two-bay building (the rooms above the arch belong to no.33).

Pitched natural slate roof with concrete brick chimney at left, part-rendered clay brick chimney at right (shared with no.33) and half-round metal rainwater goods. The walls are painted and cement rendered.

The main entrance is at right, its jamb being shared with central coach arch. Door is 10-panel painted timber with pilastered casing over granite base stones and a curved iron fanlight over; all but the actual door are original. To the left of the door is a window opening, now boarded over and over which is a painted sign. The first floor has two 6/6 sliding sash windows, with splayed horns and exposed sash boxes. The second floor windows are identical and set within flat-roofed dormers which have metal-clad cheeks and roof covering. All the window cills are painted.

The building which formerly abutted at left has been demolished, and only a buttress and bottom section of the ground floor wall survives (at the left end of which is an infilled coach arch). The wall has been cement rendered.

The rear elevation, which is also cement rendered, is abutted at ground floor right by a flat-roofed cement-rendered return. To its left is a narrow window, and two smaller openings left again. All these openings are modern or modifications of the originals. The left bay contains a 1/1 top-hung timber window to each half-landing. There is an identical window to each rear room on the first and second floor.

Historical information

Cited in the 1836 Valuation book as one of three-house terrace (no. 37 has been demolished). Its dimensions are given as 22 x 28 x 26ft. These accord with the dimensions given in the 1863 valuation which note it as three storeys high. With the exception of the dormers, it is basically the same building as existed in the earlier 19th century.

Primary Source:
1. PRONI - VAL 1B/ 246A, p.36;
2. PRONI - VAL 1B/246B, p.51;
3. PRONI - VAL 1B/246D, p.51;
4. PRONI - VAL 2B/2/39C, p.98.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Externally, this building is of some interest on account of its arched doorway. However, the dormers and rear return detract from its character to such an extent that it is no longer of special architectural merit.