Level III: Fourth And Gill H-1
8-J-16-HZ
Recommendations will be available 1 week prior to the meeting.
Applicant Request
Other: new construction- Narrative revised for 9/15/16 HZC meeting: Construction of a one-and-one-half story, 40'x66' side-gabled Craftsman-style house as per submitted drawings. The house will be constructed on a crawl-space foundation faced with a distressed and tumbled brick. It will be sheathed in fiber cement board lap siding with a six-inch exposure with a smooth finish, and terminated into corner boards. Windows will be wooden 3/1double-hung.
- The front porch will be supported by battered columns on paneled pedestals. The porch floor will be of 3-inch wood tongue-and-groove. The front door will be a wooden three-quarter-light door, with a transom light. The rear and side doors are proposed to be full-light and a half-light respectively, of painted fiber-glass. The bank of five windows in the front-gabled dormer are each 3x2 in size. The 3/4-façade front porch roof pitch is engaged within the main house roof.
- The porte cochere on the southeast side will extend southeast from the front porch and is supported on one side by three battered columns on paneled pedestals. The front and rear porches, the roof dormers, and the porte cochere eaves will feature exposed rafter tails and gables will have eave brackets. The rear porch is to have a 2x2 wooden balustrade and Fiberon composite flooring. A driveway with two concrete aggregate wheel strips separated by a grass strip will be constructed from Deery Street to the porte-cochere.
- The project is approved with the following conditions: 1) that the column base panels are made of wood and not fiberglass; 2) that the front porch have a minimum clearance of 6 feet beyond the columns; 3) that the applicant will match the concrete of the public sidewalk for the driveway; 4) that a faux chimney stack on the northwest side is not approved until the HZC is presented with more specific information to consider; and 5) that the final size of the northwest elevation windows is to be determined and dependent on the addition of a chimney stack.
Fourth and Gill H-1
- Style: Vacant lot
Applicable Guidelines
Fourth and Gill Design Guidelines, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on April 20, 1999 and June 29, 1999.
See Guidelines- Width of Houses and Lots
- 1. Maintain the historic facade lines of streetscapes by locating the front walls of new buildings in the same plane as the facades of adjacent buildings.
- 2. Avoid placing buildings at odd angles to the street..
- 3. Side yard setbacks for new buildings shall be consistent with those of existing historic buildings so that gaps are not left in the streetscape.
- Scale and Massing
- 1. Relate the size and proportions of new structures to the scale of adjacent buildings.
- 2. Break up uninteresting boxlike forms into smaller, varied masses like those found on existing buildings by the use of bays, extended front porches, and roof shapes.
- 3. New buildings should be designed with a mix of wall areas with door and window elements in the facade like those found on existing buildings.
- 4. Relate the vertical, horizontal, or non-directional facade character of new buildings to the predominant directional alignment of nearby buildings. A new building should continue and reinforce the alignment established by its neighbors.
- 5. Relate the roof forms of the new buildings to those found in the area. Duplication of the existing or traditional roof shapes, pitches, and materials on new construction is one way of making new structures more compatible.
- Height of Foundations and Stories
- 1. As a general rule, construct new buildings to equal the average height of existing buildings on the street.
- 2. Raised foundations, or the appearance of raised foundations, must be designed for any new housing constructed in Fourth and Gill. The height of the foundation should replicate those of adjoining buildings.
- 3. If building new structures, the eave lines should conform to those of adjacent properties. Divisions between stories should either be omitted, or should mimic neighborhood buildings.
- Materials
- 1. The materials with which the buildings are constructed contribute one of the most important visual factors in the neighborhood. The historic buildings use materials that were common when they were built. Those materials do not include concrete block, aluminum or vinyl siding or other synthetic wall coverings (unless they are added later).
- Features
- 1. Always design front facades with a strong sense of entry. Strongly emphasized side entries, or entries not defined by a porch or similar transitional element, result in an incompatible flat first-floor facade.
- 2. Avoid replicating or imitating the styles, motifs, or details of older periods. Such attempts can present a confusing picture of the true character of the historical area.
- Porches (added 9/18/16)
- Porches protect entries from weather and cool the house by shading the windows and doors. They offer entertainment and an opportunity for neighborhood social life not dependent on television. They are graceful, welcoming and introduce the house to passersby.
