house — North Great George's Street

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1768. Now in use as multiple-occupancy apartments. Pitched slate roof behind rebuilt red brick parapet wall with squared granite coping. Stepped red brick chimneystacks with clay pots shared with adjoining houses. Cast-iron rainwater goods throughout. Flemish bond red brick walls with moulded granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement level. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with brick reveals and granite sills, rendered surround to basement opening. Replacement timber sliding sash windows throughout,six-over-six pane to basement, nine-over-six pane to ground and first floors, six-over-six pane to second floor and three-over-three pane to top floor. Round-headed door opening within tooled limestone doorcase having engaged Tuscan columns on plinth blocks surmounted by moulded frieze, paired entablatures and open-bed pediment housing plain fanlight. Replacement timber panelled door with stone reveals opening onto granite-flagged platform with granite stepped approach, bridging basement area. Approach flanked by wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth having cast-iron boxed corner posts. Matching single-leaf gate granting access to basement via rendered steps with wrought-iron handrail. Interior entrance hall having original chair rail and skirting with Rococo plasterwork to ceiling. Over-doors having griffins and scrolled foliate designs. Panelled reveals to doorway with stair hall, with inset floral medallions. Turned balusters to staircase with carved tread ends, replacement newel and ramped handrail. Rope cornice to stair hall. Ornate tympanum to first floor landing on scrolled brackets. Rococo ceiling above stair hall.