house — Parliament Street

Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement red brick house, c.1800, reputedly incorporating fabric of medieval range, pre-1700, on site with single-bay four-storey return to east. Renovated, post-1977, with jettied box bay window inserted to left ground floor. Now in use as offices. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick Flemish bond walls with cut-limestone course to ground floor, and coping to parapet. Square-headed window openings (including to jettied box bay window) with cut-stone sills, red brick voussoirs, six-over-one (first floor), three-over-six (second floor) and three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows having fixed-pane timber window to jettied box bay window with fascia over having dentilated course leading to swept hipped slate roof. Square-headed door opening in shared elliptical-headed doorcase with three cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone engaged Tuscan columns supporting frieze, timber panelled door, and shared fanlight having cut-limestone archivolt. Interior with entrance hall having carved timber architraves to door openings with timber panelled doors, plasterwork cornice to ceiling having decorative plasterwork rosette, and timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with sections of wrought iron railings to front on rendered plinth having cut-limestone coping.