7-D-22-HZ

Level II: Old North Knoxville H

Approved

Recommendation

Staff recommends approval of the work as completed and proposed, providing for any additional rear elevation transparency or details recommended by the Commission.

Applicant Request

Deck; Doors; Windows

- Window enclosure: after-the-fact review of rear elevation window enclosure. Seven windows on shed-roof addition on rear were removed and enclosed with wood lap siding to match the remainder of the house.
- Rear elevation work: applicant proposes to install wood, multi-light double door on rear elevation, upper level (where bank of windows were enclosed). Overall door opening is 67' by 82', with paired doors, each featuring four lights over a single horizontal panel. Doors to be set 1' from the leftmost side of the deck.
- Deck: new wood deck, measuring 12' deep by 20' wide, projecting from rear elevation of house. Deck to be set on 8' tall posts with a square wood picket railing to meet specifications provided, with square balusters set into top and bottom rails.
- The application was postponed by the HZC at the July 2022 meeting to allow the applicant to provide scaled and dimensioned drawings of all work to be completed on the rear elevation.
- Staff-level revision, 9.1.22: application also includes demolition of non-contributing, non-historic CMU secondary structure (walls with no roof).

Old North Knoxville H

- Style: Queen Anne cottage, c.1903
  - One-story, wood frame house with a hipped roof with projecting front-gable massing on the left side of the façade, clad in wood lap siding. Decorative shingles and fascia board on front gable. Triangular dormer on the roof slope. Flat roof porch.

Applicable Guidelines

Old North Knoxville Design Guidelines, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on November 25, 2004.

- B. Windows
- 5. It can be appropriate to design and install additional windows on the rear or another secondary elevation. The design must be compatible with the overall design of the building.
- 6. Windows may not be blocked in. They must retain the full height and width of the original opening.
- C. Porches
- 2. Design elements to be incorporated in any new porch design must include tongue and groove wood floors, beadboard ceilings, wood posts and/or columns and sawn and turned wood trim when appropriate. If balustrades are required, they must be designed with spindles set into the top and bottom rails.
- D. Entrances
- 4. A replacement entrance shall not create a false historic appearance. A new entrance or porch must be compatible in size, scale, or material.
- 5. Rear entrances may not be altered to make them appear to be formal entrances by adding paneled doors, fanlights, transoms, or sidelights.
- 6. Secondary entrances must be compatible with the original in size, scale, and materials, but clearly secondary in importance.

See Guidelines

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