house — North Great George's Street

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1785, having five-bay single-storey addition to rear. Pitched slate roof having red brick parapet with moulded granite coping. Mixed cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods and shared rendered chimneystack. Flemish bond red brick walls having moulded granite plinth course with drip hood. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls to basement level. Substantial component of second and third floor walls rebuilt. Diminishing square-headed window openings with gauged red brick voussoirs, rendered reveals and granite sills. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground and second floors, nine-over-six pane to first floor, and replacement timber sliding sash windows elsewhere, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane to basement. Round-headed door opening within painted stone doorcase, comprising label-moulded surround, engaged Ionic columns on plinth blocks, ornamented lintel and cornice surmounted by ornate concave archivolt with festoons and foliate design housing peacock fanlight. Replacement timber panelled door opening onto granite platform with cast-iron bootscraper and stepped approach. Approach flanked by granite and yellow brick plinth wall with mixed wrought and cast-iron railings enclosing basement area. Cast-iron gate providing access to basement with flagstone staircase and recent timber handrail.