house — Parnell Square West

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1765. Now in multiple occupancy. Double-pile bitumen covered slate roof, pitched to front pile with three hipped sections to rear pile. Roof hidden behind parapet wall with covered coping and shared cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to north. Rendered and brick chimneystacks with clay pots to both party walls. Ruled-and-lined cement rendered walls on moulded granite plinth course over rendered basement walls. Yellow brick walls laid in English garden wall bond to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Decorative bowed wrought-iron balconettes and panelled timber internal shutters to first floor windows. Square-headed door opening set into round-headed pedimented and rusticated Portland stone doorcase, with early timber door with eight raised-and-fielded panels, flanked by rusticated pilasters, having stepped lintel cornice and scrolled console brackets supporting open-bed pediment housing voussoired spoked timber fanlight. Door opens onto granite platform and four granite steps with cast-iron bootscraper. Platform and basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings and corner piers set on raised moulded granite plinth wall with matching gate and steel steps accessing the basement. Five-storey office and apartment development to rear of site accessed from Granby Place.