house

Attached two-bay four-storey former townhouse, built c. 1820, as pair with No. 48 (50920019). Now in use as shop with recent shopfront inserted to ground floor. M-profile slate roof hidden behind parapet wall with two brick chimneystacks to north party wall having octagonal clay pots. Rendered parapet wall and crown cornice with granite blocking course. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with cement pointing. Buff brick to rear elevation laid in English garden wall bond. Gauged brick square-headed window openings with patent reveals, granite sills and traces of former pedimented window surrounds to first floor. Historic six-over-six timber sash windows to first and second floors with convex horns and much historic glass, recent uPVC sash windows to top floor. Historic three-over-three pane timber sash windows to third floor rear with metal grille affixed. Single iron planter to the first floor (west). Recent glazed timber shopfront spanning ground floor surmounted by lead-lined cornice. Forming part of continuous terrace of commercial buildings lining east side of Grafton Street.

This former townhouse retains its original residential plot size, fenestration pattern and historic windows, and forms part of a group of four similarly scaled buildings at the south-eastern end of Grafton Street. It is part of a historic streetscape which clearly depicts the earlier character of the street, before Victorian and twentieth-century buildings were inserted.