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End-of-terrace three-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1800, having three-bay ground floor and two-bay upper floors, as part of terrace of ten similar houses. M-profile slate roof hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping. Yellow brick chimneystacks to west party wall and rendered chimneystacks rising from east gable. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond on painted granite plinth course over rendered basement wall. Roughcast cement rendered walls to side gable and rear elevations with two cantilevered corrugated-iron projections to rear. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Decorative iron balconettes to first floor (possibly replacement). Round-headed stairs windows to rear retain timber sliding sash frames and original fanlights. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with moulded surround and painted masonry Ionic doorcase. Original flat-panelled timber door flanked by engaged Ionic columns on replacement plinth blocks supporting fluted lintel cornice and plain fanlight. Door opens onto concrete platform and three granite steps, bridging basement, enclosed by wrought-iron railing and cast-iron corner posts. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railing on granite plinth wall and steel gate giving access via steel steps. Rear site enclosed by tall rendered walls.

This three-storey townhouse terminates a terrace of ten similar houses of elegant Georgian proportions. It is one of only two houses with an Ionic doorcase and it also retains its steps and railings and its original stairs windows to the rear, all of which help it retain its original appearance on one of the earliest terraces on the North Circular Road.