house — John's Square

Corner-sited terraced three-bay three-storey over basement limestone former townhouse, built in 1751, compositionally united with No. 1 by a red brick niche beneath blind red brick oculus at second floor level. Full-height two-bay return to rear. Front site basement area enclosed from pavement. Pitched artificial slate roof hipped to west, with profiled eaves course supporting cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared and coursed limestone rubble walls with rubble limestone basement elevation and squared and coursed rubble limestone two-bay three-storey over basement return elevation. Limestone architrave to niche and oculus. Square-headed window openings with limestone voussoirs, cement rendered reveals, limestone sills; six-over-six timber sash windows to ground and first floor level and six-over-three timber sash windows to second floor level, all c. 1870. Square-headed door opening with limestone ashlar lugged and kneed architrave, raised and fielded panelled timber door, c. 1980, and glazed overlight; arrived at by a bridged limestone flagged front door platform flanked by rubble limestone plinth walls with limestone copings, which returns to enclose the basement area to east and west bays; raised and fielded panelled timber door and glazed overlight, c. 1980. Front door arrived at by a bridged limestone flagged front door platform flanked by modern plinth wall to east and original rubble limestone wall to west, returning on the curve, and supporting wrought-metal railings with pineapple finial, c. 2000.