Eirden House — Belvedere Place

End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1830, with chamfered rear corner. Now in multiple occupancy. M-profile slate roof, hipped to north of rear pitch, behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to north end. Two rendered chimneystacks rising from north gable and further pair of stepped brick chimneystacks to south party wall, all having clay pots. Painted brick walls laid in Flemish bond, rebuilt to top floor and laid in English garden wall bond, set on painted granite plinth course above rendered basement wall. Cement rendered walls to gable and rear elevations. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows. Gauged brick three-centred arched door opening with moulded masonry surround and painted masonry Ionic doorcase, with replacement timber door flanked by engaged Ionic columns on plinth bases supporting panelled lintel cornice with wreath motifs and original teardrop fanlight. Door opens onto granite platform with cast-iron bootscraper and three granite steps bridging basement area. Platform and basement enclosed by original wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth wall enclosing basement area. North gable wall now in use for advertising billboard. Full-height canted bay to rear elevation with round-headed stair-hall window openings to rear elevation. Side and rear area enclosed by replacement steel railings and used as parking and enclosed to North Circular Road by tall rendered wall.