Building record TR 34 SW 2364 - Historic Building 17 Norman Street, Dover, Kent
Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TR 3160 4162 (7m by 11m) |
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Map sheet | TR34SW |
County | KENT |
District | DOVER, KENT |
Civil Parish | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Full Description
Forms part of a terrace of 9, mid C19th houses of a double depth plan, located on the northern side of Norman Street. It is in a stock brick which is rendered across all floors, this render is painted cream and the plasterwork detail is painted white. The door is located on the western side of the façade, close to the western party wall, with a single window at the ground floor level on its eastern side. The ground floor is raised from the street level and the front door is accessed via a set of six concrete steps. There is a door beneath these steps which provides separate access to the basement level. There are five pilasters at the ground floor level, one on either side of both the window and the door, with a further over the eastern party wall, supporting an entablature with triglyphs and first floor level. There are two windows at the first floor level, these do not align with those on the ground floor. Both have moulded plasterwork surrounds though they lack the triangular pediments present on the buildings to the west. The second floor windows align with the first floor windows, these have protruding sills but lack the detailing apparent on the surrounds of the first floor. There is a projecting moulded cornice below a low parapet over the second floor. An amount of untidy wiring is attached to the façade at several locations and there is a metal gutter down pipe located over the eastern party wall running through a gap just below the cornice down to the basement level. In the front of the house there is a low stuccoed brick wall and stuccoed gate piers separating a small paved garden area from the street. Two further low walls with stuccoed gate piers with moulded caps are located on either side of the steps up to the doorway, these are all painted cream. The rear elevation is in flint and brick rubble with brick dressings. There are shallow rendered bay windows located across all floors, on the eastern side of the rear façade. The building appears to be in a good condition with a number of surviving original features.
There are six windows located across the façade, all are all original 12-pane sashes divided by timber glazing bars apart from the flat roofed dormer at the roof level which is a six pane sash. The first and second floor windows align across the floors, while the single ground floor and basement windows are located slightly off centre, on the eastern side of the door. All of the windows four panes high by three wide, apart from the dormer (discussed above) and the basement window which is four wide by three high. The door is located on the western side of the façade, abutting the western party wall. It is a C19 panelled door in timber painted blue. The upper two panels are glazed in an opaque glass. There is a rectangular overlight located above the transom over the door, also with opaque. The window and door frames are in timber painted white. All of the windows are in a good condition. The windows on the rear elevation were not clearly seen but appear to be mostly original timber framed sashes and in a good condition though some chipped paintwork is visible.
The roof is gabled with the gable ends over both party walls. It is in a Welsh slate. There are rendered stacks over party walls. There is a large modern aerial located just behind the parapet at the roof level. Both the stack and the roof are in a good condition. (1)
<1> Kent County Council, 2019, Historic building condition asseesment and photographic survey of Dover Town Centre (Unpublished document). SKE52120.
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1>XY SKE52120 Unpublished document: Kent County Council. 2019. Historic building condition asseesment and photographic survey of Dover Town Centre. [Mapped feature: #101858 Building, ]
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Related Events/Activities (2)
- Non-Intrusive Event: Walkover and photographic survey of Dover Town - Area 2 The Priory (EKE19203)
- Event Boundary: Walkover and photographic survey of Dover Town Centre (EKE19201)
Record last edited
Jun 19 2019 4:12PM