house — Pearse Street

Terraced four-bay three-storey double-pile over basement townhouse, extant 1838, originally two separate two-bay three-storey townhouses. In alternative use, 1890. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Two of a terrace of six. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having rendered capping (north) or corbelled stepped capping (south) supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Tuck pointed drag edged tooled limestone ashlar wall (upper floors). Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones framing replacement one-over-one (first floor) or two-over-two (top floor) timber sash windows replacing six-over-six (first floor) or six-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (upper floors): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with cobbled footpath to front.