house — North Great George's Street

Terraced two-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built 1787. Now in use as multiple occupancy residence. Pitched slate roof behind refurbished red brick parapet wall with granite coping. Shared rendered chimneystack with clay pots. Flemish bond red brick walls with moulded granite plinth course over rendered basement. Square-headed window openings with red brick surrounds and gauged voussoirs, patent rendered reveals and granite sills. Replacement timber sliding sash windows throughout, nine-over-six pane to lower two floors, six-over-six pane to second floor and basement, and three-over-three pane to top floor. Ornate balconettes to first floor openings, and simpler railings to openings of other floors. Round-headed door opening within painted tooled stone doorcase, comprising moulded surround, engaged Ionic columns on plinth blocks surmounted by lintel, with foliate ornamentation, and cornice surmounted by replacement peacock fanlight and ornate concaved archivolt. Timber panelled door with brass door furniture, opening onto granite platform with cast-iron bootscraper and stepped approach bridging basement area. Approach flanked by moulded granite plinth wall with wrought-iron railings. Access to enclosed basement area via recent steel staircase.