house — North Circular Road

Terraced three-storey former house over raised basement, built c.1795 as part of terrace of six, having three-bay ground floor and basement and two-bay upper floors. Now in multiple occupancy. Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles, hipped to south, having brick chimneystack to party wall to north, behind parapet with square granite coping, and with one rendered chimneystack to rear. Red-brown brick walls, laid in flush pointed Flemish bond, with built-out unpainted render to basement level. Unpainted render to rear elevation. Gauged flat-arch window openings with painted patent reveals, painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows throughout, ground floor having two smaller asymmetrically-placed windows. Rear elevation has single glazed metal windows throughout. Segmental-headed door opening with painted render reveals, replacement timber door flanked by engaged panelled timber pilasters with brackets supporting timber frieze and cornice, and having plain fanlight. Door opens onto stone flagged platform with four square-nosed granite steps to garden path and gate. Flanked by rendered granite-capped party wall to south and basement area flanked by wrought-iron railings on granite-capped plinth, returning to boundary to north. Original boundary detailing comprising rendered piers with recessed panels and stepped shallow pyramidal granite caps, decorative iron pedestrian gate, and railing on masonry plinth with granite capping. Single step up from gate to path. Single-storey flat-roofed block-work shed to rear, opening directly to Dorset Lane.