house — Henrietta Street

Terraced four-bay four-storey house over raised basement, built 1739-43. Now in mixed use. Pitched slate roof to front with hipped section to east and further pitched section running perpendicular to street and hipped to rear incorporating full-height rear projection. Roof hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to east end with further rainwater goods to west feeding into neighbouring downpipe. Stepped brown brick chimneystacks to both party walls. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with iron tie-plates, set on moulded granite plinth course over lime-rendered basement walls. Gauged red brick flat-arch window openings with timber lined reveals, masonry sills and replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, with nine-over-six pane frames to western two bays, and possibly earlier three-over-three pane sashes to basement with wide glazing bars and partly exposed sash boxes. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with tripartite painted stone Ionic doorcase. Replacement timber door flanked by engaged Ionic columns on plinth blocks supporting fluted lintel cornice with sidelights and fanlight, boarded up. Door opens onto sandstone-paved platform and three sandstone steps bridging basement. Platform and basement enclosed by wrought-iron railings with cast-iron corner posts and finials, all set on moulded granite plinth wall. Rear plot enclosed by single-storey building opening onto Henrietta Lane.