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Terraced two-bay three-storey house over raised basement, built c.1830, now in multiple occupancy. Pitched slate roof concealed behind parapet wall with granite coping and replacement hopper and downpipe breaking through. Brick chimneystacks with clay pots to both party walls. Yellow brick walls laid in Flemish bond on granite plinth course over ruled-and-lined rendered basement wall. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings, granite sills, rendered reveals and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Gauged brick three-centred arched door opening with moulded masonry surround and painted masonry Doric doorcase. Replacement flat-panelled timber door flanked by pair of engaged Ionic columns on plinth bases (capitals damaged) supporting panelled lintel cornice and plain glazed fanlight over. Door opens onto granite paved platform and three steps enclosed by original wrought-iron railing and decorative cast-iron corner posts. Basement area enclosed by iron railing on moulded granite plinth wall. Original granite paving to street with cast-iron coal-hole cover.

This late Georgian townhouse forms part of a terrace lining the east side of Sherrard Street Lower, a street laid out by Thomas Sherrard, surveyor to the Wide Street Commissioners in the 1820s. The house is part of a relatively intact terrace, its fine doorcase being its decorative focus, and its iron railings and granite steps contributing to its setting. Despite the replacement of windows, contributes to the character of the streetscape, the latter further enhanced by original paving and street furniture.