Historic Zoning Commission

Old North Knoxville:

10-E-02-HZ

Applicant Request

Enclose back stoop, matching wood siding and installing double hung wood windows.

Site Info

One story frame with asbestos thisngle wall covering. Hip roof with lower cross gables, asphalt shingle roof covering, sawn wood bargeboard on gables and round sawn wood attic vents. One story two bay front porch with replacement aluminum columns and two square engaged pilastes with Doric capitals. Two interior offset side stuccoed chimneys. Stuccoed foundation. Irregular plan. (Owner has completed demolition, and removing fire damaged materials has left little original material. The brick foundation has been rebuilt, sills installed and framing is being completed. New construction will be identical to the original in form, but wood weatherboard siding will replace asbestos shingles, and porch columns will be turned wood posts. The windows will be wood double hung windows. The owner is committed to a final product that looks like a restored Queen Anne Cottage.)

The Historic Zoning Commission approved an addition to the rear of the building in Certificate No. 20702ONK; at that time, the applicant intended to convert the rear porch to a glassed in addition. He has determined that the addition would remove needed exterior space, and wishes instead to enclose the rear porch to provide additional kitchen space. The building has been altered in the past, and has deteriorated to the point where the owner is rebuilding all of the space. The rear/side porch enclosure is consistent with other home additions on this style house, makes the house more marketable in the future and thus more likely to survive, and will be consistent in materials.