house — North Circular Road

Terraced three-storey former house over raised basement, built c.1795, as one of pair, with three-bay ground floor and basement, two-bay upper floors, two-storey return to rear. Now in multiple occupancy. Pitched artificial slate roof, hipped to west end and gabled to rear elevation, with clay ridge tiles, brick chimneystack on party wall to south and second stack to return, behind parapet with granite coping. Replacement uPVC hopper to cast-iron downpipe breaking through parapet. Red-brown brick walls laid in flush-pointed Flemish bond, with painted render to basement level. Painted roughcast render to rear elevation. Gauged flat-arch window openings with painted rendered reveals, painted stone sills and replacement uPVC timber sliding sash windows. Flat arches to second floor rebuilt. Rear elevation has replacement uPVC windows throughout. Segmental-headed door opening with painted render reveals, replacement timber door, and plain fanlight. Basement enclosed by rendered plinth wall and bounded by replacement steel railing on rendered wall with granite capping, with one step up at pedestrian entrance flanked by original rendered piers with stepped shallow pyramidal granite capping, gate missing. Three ramped concrete steps to main door. Garden to front, now concreted over. Single-storey shallow pitched roof to masonry shed to rear of property opening directly to Dorset Lane.