Delfin English School — Dominick Street Lower

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1760, with two-storey return. Now in use as language school. Slate roof, pitched to front pile, with two hipped sections to rear pile, set behind rendered parapet wall with granite coping. Shared cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through parapet to north end. Stepped rendered chimneystack with clay pots to north party wall. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with flush pointing to painted moulded granite plinth course over ruled-and-lined rendered basement walls. Ruled-and-lined rendered finish to rear elevation walls. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted masonry sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to lower floors and three-over-three pane to top floor, cast-iron grilles to basement windows. Replacement timber sash windows to rear elevation with single round-headed sash window to stairhall. Pedimented painted stone Doric doorcase. Original timber door with eight raised-and-fielded panels, stone architrave surround flanked by engaged Doric columns on plinth blocks supporting full Doric entablature blocks supporting open pediment, accommodating plain glazed fanlight with mutules to entablauture and foliate panels to soffit of pediment. Door opens onto granite platform and single step, bridging the basement. Platform enclosed by wrought-iron railings and wrought-iron corner piers set on moulded granite plinth wall with matching iron gate. Basement area also enclosed by wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth wall. Rear of site asphalted and used for car-parking accessed under carriage arch of number 40.