Historic Zoning Commission

Old North Knoxville H-1: Level II

6-F-18-HZ

Applicant Request

Level II. Construction of addition on house and outbuilding

Construct frame, hipped-roof rear porch with dimension of 10'x28'. The porch addition will project beyond the face of the existing balcony by ~10 feet. The porch will feature a 36-inch-high balustrade with 2x2 nominally sized porch balusters and 6x6 chamfered posts. It will be suppported by brick piers infilled with framed wooden lattice panels. Construct 6/12 hipped roof with front hipped dormer on an existing carriage house. Replace doors with salvaged or custom wooden side-opening or sliding carriage house doors with true-divided lights. Install 2 sets of two true-divided three-light windows into existing openings on the south elevation of the carriage house.

Site Info

House historically known as Pincrest -- a George Barber design. Neoclassical with Queen Anne and Shingle-style influences. (1899). Two story frame with weatherboard wall covering. Hip roof with asphalt shingle covering, dormers and roof finials. Double hung one-over-one and Queen Anne cottage window. One-story two-thirds front porch with arcaded shingled balustrade and engaged round pilasters with Ionic capitals. Two brick chimneys, one interior end and one exterior front with elaborate arched leaded stained glass window set into front brick chimney with limestone sill and arch. Brick foundation. Irregular plan. Projecting rounded two-story bay on front elevation with applied zinc garland at eaves and recessed marble chip panels below and above first-story windows. Canted two-story bay also on front elevation. Rounded projecting sun room on south elevation with six-over-six and four-over-four windows and eaves supported bywooden Doric columns. (C)

(c. 1955) One and one-half story auxiliary frame apartment with weatherboard wall covering and one-half brick veneer on front elevation. Gable roof with asphalt shingle covering. Replacement windows. Rectangular plan. (NC)

1) The frame house is a contributing structure within the Old North Knoxville H-1 Overlay and National Register Historic District. The brick garage is listed as a noncontributing structure daing to about 1955 in the historic inventory, but the type of brick used indicates that it may have been constructed during the 1920s.

2) The house is a George Barber architect-designed house, known as "Pinecrest" (Design No. 14). The floor plans for this design indicate a rear porch with balcony.

3) The proposed low hipped roof, wooden features, and wooden lattice between brick piers are appropriate for and compatible with the features of the existing house. At 28 feet long, the porch will extend for a longer length along the rear of the house than the porch shown on the Barber plans (between the two basement accesses ), but it will not obscure or destroy significant historic fabric.

4) The 36-inch-high, 2x2 nominally sized porch balusters and 6x6 chamfered posts will contrast with the existing turned balusrtade on the upper level porch and help to distinguish the new porch from the existing porch.

5) The proposed hipped roof for the accessory structure is compatible with that of the house, and is an appropriate roof type for carriage houses of the era. The existing flat roof of the accessory structure is not character-defining.

6) The wooden side-opening carriage house doors with twin lights proposed to replace the existing doors are appropriate for the accessory structure, as are the front dormer and the true-divided light windows on the south elevation.