house — Sherrard Street Upper

Terraced two-bay three-storey house over raised basement, built c.1880, now in office use with Nos. 27 and 28. M-profile artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles and profiled red brick chimneystacks to west party wall. Replacement uPVC gutter supported on moulded red brick brackets with cast-iron downpipe. Machine-cut red brick walls laid in Flemish bond on chamfered granite plinth course over ruled-and-lined rendered basement walls. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with granite sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns, three-over-three pane and two-over-two pane to basement with iron grilles. Three-sided canted bay window to ground and basement levels with continuous granite sill and hipped lead-lined roof with terracotta corbels to gutter. Gauged and bull-nosed brick round-headed door opening with inset chamfered brick surround. Original flat-panelled timber door with lintel cornice and plain glazed fanlight. Door opens onto granite platform and seven nosed granite steps enclosed by decorative cast-iron railings on granite plinth wall. Red and black tiled footpath through front garden with cast-iron coal-hole cover and enclosed to street by cast-iron railings on rendered plinth wall with original iron gate on red brick piers.