house — Belvedere Place

Corner-sited end-of-terrace four-bay four-storey house over raised basement, built c.1805, with single-bay south side elevation fronting onto Mountjoy Square. Recently restored and now in commercial office use. Pie-ended slate roof with flat copper-clad top and pair of brick chimneystacks to west party wall having clay pots. Roof hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping and cast-iron hoppers and downpipes to north side elevation. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond on chamfered granite plinth course over rendered basement walls. Cement rendered walls to north rear elevation. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor, six-over-six pane elsewhere. Wrought-iron balconettes to first floor windows. Gauged brick round-arched door opening with moulded surround and painted stone Ionic doorcase, with replacement timber door with eight raised and fielded panels flanked by engaged Ionic columns on plinth bases supporting fluted lintel cornice and plain fanlight. Door opens onto granite platform with two wrought-iron bootscrapers and five granite steps, bridging basement area. Platform and basement enclosed by wrought-iron railings set on moulded granite plinth wall to street, returning to south side elevation. Matching iron gate to north with steel steps providing basement access.