Level II: Fourth And Gill H-1
5-E-19-HZ
Approved As Modified
Recommendation
Staff recommends postponement in order to provide an opportunity for review and discussion by the Commission.Applicant Request
Accessory structure; Architectural feature; Doors; Guttering; Masonry repair/painting; Material changes; Mechanical system; Paving; Porch; Roofing; Siding; Skylights/Solar; Windows- Proposed Upper Level Work:
- Replace asphalt shingles with metal roofing; replace gutters and downspouts.
- Remove three acrylic skylights and replace with three glass skylights (one egress)
- Remove failing low-slope gable and replace with higher pitch partial gable and green roof; add windows (one egress)
- Remove abandoned chimney in existing low-slope gable
- Add recessed window (bathroom ventilation)
- Proposed Ground Level Work:
- Repair and paint non-historic brick
- Remove non-contributing canopy and CMU laundry room
- Add glazed doors and new windows to rear façade (project west)
- Add new windows to the façade facing the adjacent lot (project south)
- Remove decorative front door and replace with half-lite door and sidelights
- Repair or replace in-kind existing double-hung windows
Fourth and Gill H-1
- Style: Queen Anne Cottage (c. 1895)
- One-story with brick venner added c. 1950. Hip roof with jerkin head gables, imbricated shingles at gables, sawn wood bargeboard. One over one double hung replacement windows, metal columns and balustrade. Interior offset brick chimney. Brick foundation. Irregular plan. Sidelights at front entry. Replacement door. Projecting octagonal bay on front elevation. (Contributing)
- Style: Queen Anne Cottage (c. 1895)
Applicable Guidelines
Fourth and Gill Design Guidelines, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on April 20, 1999 and June 29, 1999.
See Guidelines- • Materials used in roofing existing buildings or new construction should duplicate the original roofing materials if possible. Asphalt or fiberglass shingles can be appropriate, as are slate, standing seam metal or metal shingle roof coverings. The color of roofing materials should be dark, green, charcoal gray, black or dark reddish brown to simulate the original roof colors. (p. 10)
- • Do not use solar collectors, modern skylights, or inappropriate structures on roof planes that are visible from the street. Do not install them where they interfere with decorative roof elements. If they are installed, they should not comprise more than 3% of the total roof surface. (p. 10)
- • If replacement windows are necessary, they should be the same overall size as the originals, with the same pane division, and the same muntin style and exterior depth, width and profile. False muntins or grids should not be used. (p. 11)
- • Repair porches on historic houses using wood floors, balustrades, posts and columns, or replace duplicating the original size and design. Reconstruction of the documented original porch is also appropriate. (p. 12)
- • Details such as columns, posts, piers, balustrades and porch ?ooring must use materials and designs that present a visually and physically appropriate appearance historically. ( p. 12)
- • Missing doors should be replaced with new doors appropriate for the style and period of the building. In replacing missing original doors, replacement doors should mimic doors typical for that architectural style, including materials, glazing, and pane configuration. Solid six panel or flush wood or steel design doors should only be used for entrances not visible from the public street. Decorator designed doors available from wholesale hardware stores are usually not appropriate for the architectural styles of the Fourth & Gill Historic District. (p. 13)
- • Historic masonry should not be coated with paint, stucco, vapor permeable water-repellent coatings or other non-historic coatings. (NOTE: Coatings are frequently unnecessary, expensive, and may change the appearance of the historic masonry as well as accelerate its deterioration.) (p. 16)
- • Locate attached exterior additions at the rear or on an inconspicuous side of a historic building, limiting the size and scale in relationship to the historic building. Proportion is very important. (p. 18)
- • Design new additions in a manner that makes clear what is historic and what is new. (p. 18)
- • Consider the attached exterior addition both in terms of the new use and the appearance of other buildings in the Historic district. Design for the new work may be contemporary or may reference design motifs from the historic buildings. In either case, it should always be clearly differentiated from the historic building and be compatible in terms of mass, materials, size, texture, scale, relationship of solids to voids, and color. (p. 18)
- • Replacement of missing features will be substantiated by documentary and physical evidence. (SOI Standards for Rehabilitation)
- • New additions, exterior alterations or related new construction will not destroy historic materials, features and spatial relationships that characterize the property. The new work will be differentiated from the old and will be compatible with the historic materials, features, size, scale and proportion, and massing to protect the integrity of the property and its environment. (SOI Standards for Rehabilitation)
- • A compatible new addition should preserve significant historic materials, features and form; be compatible; and be differentiated from the historic building. (SOI Preservation Brief 14)
Meeting Date
May 16, 2019
COA Expires September 24, 2022
Fourth and Gill H-1
629 Luttrell St 37917
Applicant
- Curb Studio Curb Studio
Owner Andrew & Caitlin Andrew & Caitlin Seidler
