house — Belvedere Place

Terraced two-bay three-storey house over exposed basement, built 1807-8, with three-storey rendered return. Now in use as offices. M-profile slate roof, hipped to south of front pitch, and set behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping. Brick chimneystacks to both party walls with octagonal clay pots to south. Red tinted brick walls laid in Flemish bond on painted granite plinth course above rendered basement wall. Yellow brick walls laid in English garden wall bond to rear elevation. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and two-over-one pane early replacement timber sliding sash windows throughout. Original round-headed timber sash window to rear stair hall. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows and cast-iron grille to basement. 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 replacement lintel cornice and replacement leaded fanlight. Door opens onto granite platform and three granite steps bridging basement area. Platform and basement area enclosed by original wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth wall enclosing basement area with replacement steel gate and concrete steps giving access to basement. Rendered wall and steel gate to rear site fronting onto North Circular Road.