Harry Clarke House

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1817, by Clement Codd as one of pair with No. 7. Pitched slate roof hidden behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping. Shared rendered and brick chimneystacks with clay pots to both party walls. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond, rebuilt to top floor, on continuous granite sill course to first floor. Rusticated granite ashlar walls to ground floor on granite plinth course above painted rendered walls to basement. Yellow brick walls to rear elevation with four-storey brick return. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with rendered reveals, painted granite sills and timber sliding sash windows, original nine-over-nine pane to first floor with historic glass and decorative wrought-iron balconettes, original camber-headed eight-over-eight pane to basement and replacement elsewhere, nine-over-nine pane to ground floor, six-over-six pane to second floor and three-over-three pane to top floor. Three-centred arched door opening with voussoired granite arch, painted moulded surround and tripartite painted masonry Ionic doorcase. Original timber door with eleven raised-and-fielded panels flanked by engaged Ionic columns on raised plinth bases, replacement leaded tracery sidelights and responding Ionic quarter engaged pilasters all supporting stepped fluted and dentillated lintel cornice with replacement leaded fanlight. Door opens onto sandstone platform and three nosed sandstone steps. Platform and basement area enclosed by original wrought and cast-iron railings set into moulded granite plinth wall, curved to corners and supporting pair of wrought-iron lamps. Round-headed door opening below platform with original spoked timber fanlight and sidelight.

This paired Georgian townhouse, one bay wider than its counterpart, similarly retains a wealth of original fabric including rusticated stone to ground floor, an unusual sandstone platform and decorative ironmongery. Forming part of a terrace laid out by Luke Gardiner II for the Wide Street Commissioners, this building presents an original aspect to the street, and together with being the site of Harry Clarke’s studio is of historic, cultural as well as architectural importance to the city.