8-F-22-HZ

Level II: Old North Knoxville H

Approved With Conditions

Recommendation

Staff recommends approval of Certificate 8-F-22-HZ, subject to the following conditions: 1) final front door selection, and design of front porch balustrade, if necessary, to be submitted to staff for approval; 2) minor modifications to rear porch design may be approved by staff.

Applicant Request

Architectural feature; Deck; Doors; Guttering; Masonry repair/painting; Porch; Roofing; Siding; Windows

- Major exterior rehabilitation of existing house. Removal of non-historic exterior elements, including vinyl siding, non-historic vinyl windows, non-historic and deteriorated wood porch and concrete steps, removal of rear elevation concrete steps and shed roof, removal of north side steps and secondary door. Removal of non-historic vinyl windows and secondary entry door on façade.
- New wood lap siding, wood trim, cornerboards, and weatherboard above existing brick foundation. New asphalt shingle roof. New two-over-two, double-hung wood windows in original fenestrations. New half-round gutters.
- Façade (south elevation): front porch will be reconstructed with hipped roof and centrally-located, front-gable portico; porch to be supported by 8" round wood columns; porch will feature wood tongue-and-groove flooring and a brick foundation. New front door.
- Rear elevation to feature a secondary porch with a 3/12 pitch, shed roof clad in standing-seam metal, a brick masonry foundation, and a metal railing.
- CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL PER 8/18/22 HZC MEETING: 1) final front door selection, and design of front porch balustrade, if necessary, to be submitted to staff for approval; 2) minor modifications to rear porch design may be approved by staff.

Old North Knoxville H

- Style: c.1890, modified Queen Anne
  - Two-story, hipped roof residence with gables projecting to the front, sides, and rear, clad ina sphalt shingles. Highly modified façade featuring vinyl siding, an enclosed front porch, and replacement windows. Refer to further house history provided in application for COA.

Applicable Guidelines

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

- A. Roofs
- 1. The shape of replacement roofs or roofs on new construction shall imitate the shapes of roofs on neighboring existing houses or other houses of the same architectural style.
- 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.
- 4. Materials used in roofing existing buildings or new construction shall duplicate the roofing materials originally found in the neighborhood. Asphalt or fiberglass shingles can be appropriate, as are wood, slate, standing seam metal, or metal shingle or tile roof coverings. The color of roofing materials should be a dark green, charcoal gray, black, or dark reddish brown to simulate original roof colors.
- 6. Roofs that are visible from streets shall retain their original shapes. Do not introduce roof elements such as dormers to a roof shape that is original.
- B. Windows
- 2. If replacement windows are necessary, they shall be the same overall size as the originals, with the same pane division and the same muntin depth, width, and profile. They shall be the same materials as the original windows, which were originally wood.
- 3. True divided lights shall be used in replacement windows with more than one pane.
- 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 original 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
- 1. Historic porches on houses in Old North Knoxville should be repaired, or may replicate the original porch if documentation of its size and design can be discovered.
- 2. Design elements to be incorporated in any new porch design must include tongue and groove wood floors, beadboard ceilings, wood post 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
- 3. It may be appropriate to design or construct a new entrance if the historic one is completely missing. Any restoration shall be based on historical, pictorial, or physical documentation, if available. It shall be compatible with the historic character of the building or with adjacent buildings.
- 4. A replacement entrance shall not create a false historic appearance. A new entrance or porch must be compatible in size, scale, and material.
- 7. Secondary entrances must be compatible with the original in size, scale, and materials, but clearly secondary in importance.
- E. Wood Wall Coverings
- 3. Replacement siding must duplicate the original. Trim and pattern shingles that ust be replaced must also duplicate the original.
- 5. Wooden features shall be repaired by patching, piecing-in, or otherwise reinforcing the wood. Repair may also include limited replacement with matching or compatible substitute materials, when elements remain and can be copied.
- 6. Wood features that are important in defining the original historic character of the building shall not be removed.
- 7. Replace only deteriorated wood. Reconstructing in order to achieve a uniform or "improved," "new" appearance is inappropriate because of the loss of good historic materials.
- 8. An entire wooden feature that is too deteriorated to repair or is completely missing shall be replaced in kind. If features are replaced, the materials they are made from shall be compatible with the original in size, scale, and material. Replacement parts should be based on historical, pictorial, and physical documentation.
- 12. If artificial siding is present on any elevation of a building and must be removed in order to repair the building structurally, it can be replaced on the building if no more than 49% of any elevation's artificial siding is removed. If 50% of the artificial siding on any elevation is removed for repair, it cannot be replaced.