house — North Great George's Street

Terraced five-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1790. Formerly two houses, one three-bay to north and other two-bay to south. Now in multiple occupancy. Built as pair with No. 45, and unified internally c.1993. Roof concealed behind red brick parapet wall with squared granite coping. Rendered and red brick chimneystacks with clay pots. Flemish bond red brick walls with granite platband and rusticated granite walls to ground floor over granite plinth course and hammer-dressed limestone blockwork walls to basement level. Cast-iron bracing plates to second storey. Gauged red brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals and granite sills. Gauged granite voussoirs to ground floor openings. Replacement timber sliding sash windows throughout, six-over-six pane to basement and second floors, nine-over-six pane to ground floor, nine-over-nine pane to first floor and three-over-three pane to top floor. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Painted stone doorcase having engaged Tuscan columns on plinth blocks with ornate multiple-pane sidelights, surmounted by ornamented lintel with medallions and cobweb fanlight within moulded surround. Replacement timber panelled door opening onto granite-flagged platform with cast-iron bootscraper and stepped approach. Enclosed to front by cast-iron gate and to basement by wrought-iron railing with cast-iron boxed corner posts. Matching gate accessing rendered staircase to basement with wrought-iron handrail.