Georgian House

Terraced three-bay three-storey over part-raised basement red brick house, c.1800, with single-bay three-storey return to north. Refenestrated, c.1900. Reroofed. Now in use as offices. Pitched roof on a T-shaped plan behind parapet (hipped to return) with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and concealed cast-iron rainwater goods (on rendered eaves to rear (east) elevation). Red brick Flemish bond wall to front (west) elevation on painted rendered plinth with rendered quoins to ends, rendered coping to parapet, and unpainted rendered walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings (in tripartite arrangement to outer bays to ground and to first floor) with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1900, having one-over-one sidelights to tripartite openings. Round-headed door opening approached by flight of seven cut-stone steps having wrought iron railings with painted doorcase having engaged Doric columns with dosserets supporting entablature, moulded archivolt having red brick voussoirs, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled reveals/shutters to window openings. Road fronted with sections of iron railings to front on painted plinth.

A well-composed Classically-proportioned substantial house highlighted in the streetscape on account of the position on a part-raised basement, the construction in red brick, distinctive attributes including the tripartite openings enhancing the elegant architectural design value of the composition, and so on. Further characteristics including an appealing doorcase enliven the external expression of the house while sections of wrought iron railings enhance the street presence of the site in Patrick Street Lower. Having been well maintained the house presents an early aspect with substantial quantities of the historic fabric surviving intact both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby making a positive contribution to an historic setting.