An application was received to list 28 Titchfield Street in Hucknall. 26 and 28 Titchfield Street stand on the line of a proposed new road and it is likely they will be the subject of a compulsory purchase order and subsequently demolished. Number 26 is being dealt with as a separate application. The building stands close to the centre of Hucknall. A Listed hosier's house and workshop stands to the north, approximately 200m away.

The owner of the property, whilst being sympathetic, felt unable to allow access to the property because of the condition and vandalised nature of number 26 Titchfield Street. No access was offered, either, to the rear of the house.

All written representations made on this case, held on file, have been taken into account.

28 Titchfield Street was erected in the late nineteenth century. It is shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1900. Although it stands next to a domestic workshop for frame knitting, and came to be in the same ownership, there is no evidence to hand which suggests that the house had any original association with the workshop.

A two storey, typical, late Victorian, end of terrace house, constructed of red brick with a pitched and gabled roof. On the north side, the house is adjoined by 30 Titchfield Street. The two bay, main elevation contains, in the right hand bay, fenestration composed of paired one over one horned sashes on the ground and first floor, separated by a brick mullion. To the left is the plain main doorway with a simple glazed light over. The stone lintels are common to all openings, chamfered above each, and run the width of the elevation forming a string. At the sill level of the upper floor the line is continued across by a band of moulded brick. There is a decorative eaves cornice and a stack at the exposed gable end.

English towns of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have a wealth of town and terraced houses. The grander are outwardly imposing and inwardly sumptuous; the more ordinary may still be of special interest for their planning and construction. Losses have been many and grievous, but the survivors play a major part in defining the character of our historic towns. In scale they vary from the palazzo to the humble lodging house: each may have different claims to special interest. One particularly important urban form was the terraced house, and a substantial proportion of our building stock falls into this category.

Post-1840 houses ought to display a higher level of interest than earlier ones if they are to be listed, because survivals become more numerous and design and construction becomes more standardised. After 1840, the criterion is increasingly selective over time.

This terraced house is typical of many thousands erected across England in the second half of the nineteenth. It is modest in design and the quality of materials. It is a standard house for which no special claims can be made. The application makes an association between 26 and 28 Titchfield Street, but there is no evidence to hand which suggests that the buildings were in common ownership when erected, or that there is a functional link between this house and the adjacent workshop. It is unlikely that, if a link could be proven, this would impart special interest to this house. (1)

Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.

<1> T. Calladine, 2008, English Heritage Listing File (Unpublished document). SNT6323.