house — North Great George's Street

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built 1787. Now in use as offices. Pitched natural slate behind rebuilt parapet wall with squared granite ashlar coping. Stepped and rendered chimneystack with clay pots shared with No. 19. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to moulded granite ashlar plinth course above rendered ruled-and-lined rendered basement. Third floor rebuilt at later date in English garden wall bond. Gauged brick flat-arched openings with painted patent reveals and painted granite sills. Replacement timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to basement, one-over-one pane to ground, first and second floors, and three-over-three pane to third floor. Painted stone doorcase comprising original ten-panelled door flanked by plain granite jambs supporting lintel with ram’s heads and swags, below cornice, surmounted by original cobweb fanlight set within decorative archivolt. Door opens onto original granite platform and five granite steps, bridging basement, enclosed to either side by wrought-iron railings with wrought-iron piers, returning to north to enclose basement, on moulded granite plinth wall. Matching gate accessing original granite steps to basement. Plaque bearing historical information between ground floor windows.