8 Anglesea Street

Summary

Early-C19 house.

History

The fishing village of the ‘Le Ryde’ is recorded in the C14. By the late C18 there were two separate settlements located at different ends of the route of the main street much of which was the route of the High Street, the farming community of Upper Ryde to the south, and the fishing and port community of Lower Ryde to the north by the coast.

During the early years of the C19, Ryde began to grow, culminating in the merger of Upper and Lower Ryde. From 1825 regular steam ferries began to operate between Ryde and Portsmouth. In 1829, The Ryde Improvement Act recognised Ryde as a town. A significant increase in the town’s population occurred during the first half of the C19, rising from around 1,000 in 1800 to 10,000 in the 1860s. Ryde developed as a seaside resort, encouraged by Queen Victoria’s presence on the island and the resulting boom in tourism. Its popularity continued into the C20, with the town acting as one of the main points of entry to the Isle of Wight.

8 Anglesea Street was part of this initial phase of C19 development in Ryde and it appears on the first 25” Ordnance Survey (OS) maps of the town of the 1860s. In these maps the building is shown with a square footprint and a small front garden onto the street. The property’s rear garden is a long plot, the width of which is roughly half that of the rear elevation.

An 1897–1898 25” OS map shows a small outbuilding in the south-western corner of the garden. By 1909, the 25” OS revision demonstrates that the rear garden was enlarged to align with the width of the main house, incorporating a small outbuilding at its south-eastern corner which had previously been part of the garden of 7 Anglesea Street. These rear outbuildings were rationalised in the mid-C20 with a 1946–1947 25” OS map showing a rear extension along the plot’s western boundary. Further extensions to 8 Anglesea Street were built to the rear in the late C20 (visible on a 1970 25” OS map), incorporating this earlier addition. 7 to 10 Anglesea Street (consecutive) and 13-14 Anglesea Street all date from the early to mid-C19 and form a group of historic buildings along the southern side of Anglesea Street.

Details

Early-C19 semi-detatched villa.

MATERIALS: rendered brick with rusticated quoins and a slate roof. The small front garden to Anglesea Street is bounded by a brick dwarf wall topped with painted stone coping and decorative metal railings.

PLAN: the house is two-bays wide and historically had a square footprint. It was extended to the rear, including a small extension to the south-west, in the latter half of the C20.

EXTERIOR: stuccoed villa of two storeys. The front elevation facing Anglesea Street, features three, recessed, six-over-six sash windows (two on the ground floor and one on western side of the first floor) with plain window surrounds, possibly stone. On the western side of the first floor is a canted, threesided, sash oriel window. The two side panels have four-over-four sashes and the central pane has an eight-over-eight sash. The sashes are separated by fluted Doric pilasters and topped with a frieze and cornice, all in timber. Below the sashes is an apron with plinth. The front door is recessed and consists of four panels, two of them glazed, with plain pilaster strips topped by a frieze and cornice. Below the frieze the doorway is encased by a modern porch. The building has a pitched roof with gable ends to the east and west with chimneys at either end. The rear (southern) part of the building features two secondary gables with ends that face south. The later, additional rear extensions appear to have flat roofs.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:

409899

Legacy System:

LBS

Sources

Other
Isle of Wight Council (2011) Ryde Conservation Area Appraisal

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