12, 13 and 14 Anglesea Street

Summary

Terrace of three cottages, early C19 , including a mid-C19 shopfront.

Reasons for Designation

12, 13 and 14 Anglesea Street, formerly listed as 13 and 14 Anglesea Street, Ryde, Isle of Wight is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* a C19 terrace with good architectural detailing which contributes to the character of an architecturally varied historic streetscape.

Historic interest:

* as part of the urban development of Ryde’s historic core.

Group value:

* the terrace is in close proximity to a several listed buildings and forms part of a strong historic grouping.

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.

12, 13 and 14 Anglesea Street was part of this initial phase of C19 development in Ryde. The terrace appears on the Town Plan of Ryde (1866, 1:500), shown subdivided into three with a ground-floor passage running through the building, between the west end and middle property, leading from the street to the rear. By the mid-C19 the row incorporated a shop at the west end. A newspaper article from 1913 advertises the sale of three cottages and a shop. In 1972 the building was described as a pair of small houses, 13 and 14 Anglesea; however, the Epoch 5a Ordnance Survey map (1971, 1:2500) shows that the row continued to consist of three properties.

Details

Terrace of three cottages, early C19, including a mid-C19 shopfront.

MATERIALS: the building is constructed of brick and coursed stone, painted to the front elevation with painted rusticated quoins to either corner. The low-pitched, slate-covered hipped roofs with eaves cornice are topped by brick and rendered stacks

PLAN: built on an irregular, angled plan to follow the course of Anglesea Street.

EXTERIOR: 12, 13 and 14 Anglesea Street is a row of three, two-storey cottages which incorpates a ground-floor shop. Numbers 13 and 14 are accessed from the front elevation and number 12 from the east return. The building has a has a six-window front elevation. The windows on the front elevation are timber sashes, mostly six-over-six panes in recessed openings with painted surrounds and block cills; the door surrounds are also painted with quoin details. On the ground floor, from east to west, there are two windows, a doorway with a four-panel door with rectangular overlight, a further sash, another doorway which incorporates a modern door and at the west end a mid-C19 shopfront. The shopfront consists of one large window with one horizontal and four vertical glazing bars set in a moulded frame. This is flanked by Doric pilasters and topped with a plain frieze and cornice. The shop is accessed by a modern door in a small single-storey addition at the west end of the building. The building's first floor has six further sash windows, including a narrower four-over-four sash near the centre.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:

409902

Legacy System:

LBS

Sources

Websites
History of Ryde, accessed 16 February 2024 from https://rshg.org.uk/history-of-ryde/

Other
Isle of Wight Council, Conservation Area Appraisal for the Ryde Conservation Area, April 2011
Isle of Wight Observer, Three Cottages and a Shop, 10 May 1913, 4
Isle of Wight Historic Environment Service report 13226 - MIW4092 13, 14 Anglesea Street, Ryde

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