house

Terraced two-bay three-storey former house over basement house, built c. 1870, as one of terrace of four, with return to rear. Now in use as apartments. M-profile pitched roof, hipped to west, partially hidden behind red brick parapet having cut granite coping, stepped brick cornice and white brick stringcourse. Red brick and rendered chimneystacks. Red brick, laid in Flemish bond, to wall to front (south) elevation. Cut granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement. Rendered walls to rear and return. Segmental- and square-headed window openings with cut granite sills, chamfered reveals, and polychrome brick detail to voussoirs, terminating in carved stops. Early one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Paired windows to ground floor. Round-headed door opening having stepped chamfered and bull-nosed brick reveal, black brick detail to voussoirs terminating in carved stops. Plain fanlight and early timber panelled door. Cut granite steps flanked by cast-iron railings with wrought-iron handrail. Steps to basement having replacement railings. Some cast-iron railings on granite plinth wall.

The house maintains much of its early form and character, enhanced by the retention of some early windows and the front door. Polychrome and decorative brickwork is used to good effect to enhance the facade. The survival of ironwork attests to the artisanship in mass production in cast- and wrought-ironwork of the later nineteenth century, and contributes to the suburban character of the streetscape. Streets were laid out in this part of the city in the early nineteenth century, following the opening of the canal harbour in 1801, though it was the latter half of the nineteenth century before this street began to develop in earnest.