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Character Area 4
Cumberland road & The New Cut
Predominant characteristics
scale & Proportions
• Buildings from 2.5 up to 4 storeys, set back
from road behind well defined boundaries
• residential scale, most dwellings semidetached
pairs, terraces or flat blocks
• Occasional large, detached industrial / office
buildings set in substantial plots
• Pitched and gabled roofs, or ‘m’ roofs
concealed behind parapets
architectural treatment
• residential building, mix of Classical/regency
and later interpretations
• Industrial / Office buildings contemporary
material Palette
• main facades: rubble stone, render, brick,
metal & timber cladding
• Boundary Treatments: coursed lias rubble,
wrought iron gates and cast iron railings,
pennant rubble
• roof coverings: Natural slate or clay with brick
stacks and clay pots
• Joinery: timber sashes and casements
7.1.7a Character Area 4 runs along the south side
of the Conservation Area, taking in the
buildings that line Cumberland road and
face the New Cut from Bathurst Basin in
the east up to and including Spike Island.
The New Cut was constructed in 1804-9.
The earliest buildings are the group of
substantial townhouses and the earliest
buildings on its north bank.
7.1.7b Buildings are predominantly residential
in scale and character, the majority of
which are terraced, with occasional
semi-detached and flat blocks. Within this
context are the few workshop and office
buildings, which contribute to a varied
townscape and context.
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