Historic Zoning Commission

Fourth and Gill H-1: Level II

11-I-16-HZ

Staff Recommendation

Approval of the addition including both Options 1 and 3 for the bathroom window.


Location Knoxville
703 Luttrell St 37917

Owner
Teresa Teresa Matthews

Applicant Request
Level II. Construction of addition
Additions; Roofing
Construct an addition on the back of the house to restore a bathroom and porch which were originally existing, as indicated by plans for this house in the Barber Catalog: Modern Dwellings floor plan (1901 edition, Design 265). The room and porch are also depicted in elevation in a 1900s photograph.
The proposed building materials are wood siding, wood windows, and asphalt shingle roofing. The proposed wooden turned porch posts and gable shingles resemble those of the front porch The hip-and-gabled addition design and 8/12 pitch will match those of the roof of the main house. There is an Option 1proposal for the bathroom window to a "bullet-glass" window on the addition underneath the rear porch roof, and an Option 2 proposal for siding and a wood-framed transom light.

Queen Anne cottage (c. 1890)
    One-and-one-half-story frame with weatherboard wallcovering. Hip roof with lower cross gabled front dormer, sawn wood bargeboard with pendant, asphalt shingled roof covering. Nine-over-six-light windows in gables, 1/1 double-hung windows on remainder of house. One-story front and side wrap-around porch with bellcast porch roof, curved ornamental half-timbering in front gable, narrow wood porch columns, front-facing brackets with applied sunburst design with brackets creating segmental arches. Two interior offset brick chimeys. Brick foundation. Irregular plan. Designed by George Barber.
Applicant

Teresa Teresa Matthews


Planning Staff
Kaye Graybeal
Phone: 215-2500
Email: contact@knoxplanning.org

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