Enston Home Cottage #8
Historic Property
Alternate Name:
Unknown
Street Address:
900 King St., Charleston, SC (Charleston County)
Site Number:
0075.22
Control Number:
U/19/0075.22
Tax Number:
4631601001
Date Surveyed:
April 16 2003
Category:
Building
Construction Date:
1927
Historic Use:
Residential/Domestic
Current Use:
Residential/Domestic
Historic Core Shape:
L
Architect or Builder:
Howe, W.B.W. (architect), Grant, Colin P. (contractor), McArrel, Robert (mason)
Number of Stories:
2.5
Construction Method:
masonry
Exterior Walls Materials:
Brick
Foundation Materials:
Brick
Roof Shape:
hip with crossing gables
Roof Materials:
composition shingle
Porch Width:
entrance bay only
Porch Shape:
flat
National Register Determination:
listed;
Signficant Architectural Features:
The cottages are L-shaped, two-story brick buildings on brick basements with a covered one-story entrance at the inside corner of the L. The walls are stretcher-bond red brick with red mortar. The cottages have gabled front and south side projection; south side interior brick corbelled chimney; and a north side exterior corbelled chimney. The front gable has a parapet with concrete coping, ends, cross work across gable, and finial; lunette with heavy arch in gable end. There are 2/2 upper and side lower windows with concrete lintels and sills; and a parapet wall over porch roof. The porch has battered brick porch support; Syrian arches on front porch opening and north front window. The south side front window and side porch opening are round-arched. The lower arches have concrete voussoirs and keystones. The front lower windows are multi/1. Additionally, a belt course goes along springers of Syrian arches; and a diagonal soldier brick pattern with center shield below north window.
Alterations:
Tin shingle roof replaced in1989 per NRHP nomination; front gable finial lost
Historical Information:
One of five cottages built in 1927 in the Enston Home Complex. William Enston died in 1859 and left money in his estate to establish a home for the elderly based on examples in his native Canterbury. The five additional cottages were built in similar designs to those of Architect W.B.W. Howe, who has designed the earlier cottages.
Source of Historical Information:
The William Enston NRHP nomination
Quadrangle Name:
Charleston