house — Patrick Street

Terraced three-bay three-storey over part-raised basement Classical-style house, built 1769, originally three-bay two-storey incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1600, with square-headed carriageway to left. Now in use as guesthouse. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone polygonal chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves having iron ties. Painted rendered walls with cut-limestone dressings including chamfered course to basement, quoins to ends, stringcourses to each floor, shared round-headed recesses to ground and to first floor having sills, surrounds, springcourses, and shared oculus recess to top floor having surround. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills (forming sill course to first floor), cut-limestone surrounds, six-over-six and three-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows. Elliptical-headed window openings to basement in tripartite arrangement in square-headed frame with cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and timber casement windows having iron bars. Round-headed door opening approached by flight of nine cut-limestone steps with carved limestone architrave having keystone, channelled archivolt having keystone, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed carriageway to left with cut-limestone block-and-start surround, and replacement timber panelled double doors, pre-1992, having overpanel. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with sections of iron railings to front on limestone ashlar plinth having moulded cut-limestone coping.