Historic Zoning Commission

Old North Knoxville H: Level II

5-I-21-HZ

Applicant Request

Revision to previously approved rear addition to modify proposed roofline. Addition was approved in August 2020 (8-K-20-HZ), with a hipped standing-seam metal roof. Current proposal does not involve any modifications to footprint, design, or exterior elevations of new addition. New roof will feature a low-sloped, membrane roof with a parapet wall and a linear metal scupper. Roof design will still feature painted wood corbels (to correspond with existing house) immediately below parapet. Parapet will extend along all three elevations of new addition.

Site Info

Two-story frame residence clad in brick, resting on a brick foundation. House features a hipped roof with a lower front gable, featuring partial cornice returns and eave overhangs, and sawn wood brackets. A hipped-roof front porch extends the length of the façade, supported by square brick columns.

1. 215 W. Glenwood Ave is a contributing resource to the Old North Knoxville National Register Historic District and local overlay.

2. The application involves roof modifications to a previously-approved, new, rear addition that has not yet been built. The proposal does not involve any other changes to the addition's footprint, design, or details. The addition approved in August 2020 (8-K-20-HZ) featured a hipped roof, to be clad in standing seam metal, with a pitch to reflect the existing roof pitch.

3. The primary house has a complex roofline, featuring two intersecting hipped massings clad in a unique concrete tile.

4. Changing the addition to feature a flat roof will minimize the addition's visibility from the public right-of-way, and won't introduce any new contradicting roofing materials, maintaining the concrete tile as the primary character-defining roof element. The flat roof will actually have less of an effect on the historic house, as the flat roof won't require major modifications to the primary roofline to connect the existing roof with the addition.

5. The low-sloped roof with a parapet and metal coping will maintain the proposed painted wood corbels on a cornice to match details on the existing house