Level I: Old North Knoxville H-1
7-B-19-HZ
Approved
Recommendation
Applicant Request
Roofing; Other: ChimneyOld North Knoxville H-1
- Style: Folk Victorian (c.1900)
- One-story frame residence clad in weatherboard siding. Brick foundation. Cross gable roof is clad in asphalt shingles and features square wood louvered vents. Interior brick chimney centered on front gable ridgeline. One-story hipped-roof front porch. Two-over-two, double-hung sash, wood windows. Two front entries on porch with one located perpendicular to the façade.
- Style: Folk Victorian (c.1900)
Applicable Guidelines
Old North Knoxville Design Guidelines, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on November 25, 2004.
See Guidelines- A. Roofs
- 3. Repair or replace roof details (chimneys, roof cresting, finials, attic vent windows, molding, bargeboards, and other unique roof features). Use some of these details in designing new buildings.
- F. Masonry
- If a harder, more heavily concentrated Portland cement mixture is used, the mortar will be more rigid than the masonry unit. As the wall absorbs moisture and then is subjected to the freeze and thaw cycles that are so prevalent in Knoxville's climate, the mortar will not move with the stone or brick, causing spalling and deterioration of the masonry units, and causing the architecture to fail.
- 1. Never sandblast masonry surfaces.
- 4. Identify and preserve msonry features that define the historic character of the building, including walls, railings, foundations, chimneys, columns, and piers, cornice and door and window pediments.
- 5. Replace an entire masonry feature that is too deterioriated to repair. Use the remaining physical evidence to guide the new work, and match new to old. Examples can include large sections of a wall, a cornice, balustrade, columns, stairways, or chimneys.
- 7. Match replacement mortar to the original mortar in color, composition, profile, and depth. If necessary, analyze the original mortar to determine the proportions of lime, sand, and cement.
- 8. Never repoint with mortar of high Portland cement content, unless that is the content of the original mortar.
- 9. Historic masonry shall not be coated with paint, stucco, vapor permeable water-repellent coatings, or other non-historic coatings.
- SOI Standards for Rehabilitation:
- 6. Deteriorated historic features shall be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature shall match the old design, color, texture, and other visual qualities and, where possible, materials.
