house — North Great George's Street

Terraced four-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1785. Now in use as school. Four-bay elevation to side (north) elevation with openings to top floor. Pitched slate roof behind red brick parapet wall with squared granite coping, concealed gutters and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered and red brick chimneystacks with clay pots to party walls, shared with Nos. 42 and 44, with brick chimneystack to exterior of north wall, intersecting with two-storey building at No. 44. Flemish bond red brick walls with moulded granite plinth course over rusticated granite walls to basement level. Gauged red brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals and granite sills. Replacement timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to basement, ground, first, and second storeys, four-over-four pane and three-over-three pane to third floor. Bowed cast-iron grilles to basement window openings. Round-headed door opening within pedimented painted stone doorcase comprising replacement engaged Ionic columns on plinth blocks supporting stepped lintel with cornice and entablatures surmounted by open-bed pediment with modillions, housing peacock fanlight. Timber panelled door opening onto granite-flagged platform with stepped approach bridging basement area. Approach flanked by original wrought-iron railings with squared cast-iron corner posts. Railings enclosing basement area either side of approach with matching gate on north giving access to basement via original granite steps with cast-iron handrail.