Historic Zoning Commission

Old North Knoxville H-1: Level II

2-B-20-HZ

Staff Recommendation

Staff recommends approval of the work as proposed, with the condition that the replacement capitals better reflect the design of the original Scamozzi capitals, with approval by staff.


Location Knoxville
1324 Grainger Ave. 37917

Owner
Amy & Nolan Amy & Nolan Sherrill

Applicant Request
Level II. Major repair or replacement of materials or architectural elements
Porch
- Columns: replacement of two half-round porch columns with new 8" half-round fiberglass columns with "PermaCast Poly Cap and PermaTuff Base."

- Repair, and replacement in-kind in patches, of wood tongue-and-groove porch flooring

- Temporary removal and resetting of corner column to address flooring repair.

Staff Comments
Queen Anne Cottage (c.1898)
    One-and-one-half-story, frame residence with wood weatherboard wall covering. Hipped roof, clad in asphalt shingles, features lower cross-gables, sawtooth trim, and drop pendants. Windows are one-over-one, double-hung wood sash. Façade features a one-story, two-bay front porch with a hipped roo, supported by two half-round wood engaged pilasters with Ionic capitals and two round replacement wood columns. Façade features a cutaway bay with a sunburst motif in sawn wood trim. Two interior offset brick chimneys.

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.

Wood wall coverings
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.
Applicant

Troy Troy Wilson - Prime Renovations Prime Renovations


Planning Staff
Lindsay Lanois
Phone: 865-215-3795
Email: lindsay.lanois@knoxplanning.org

Case History