house — North Great George's Street

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1785. Now vacant. Pitched natural slate roof behind parapet wall with moulded granite ashlar coping. Stepped rendered and red brick chimneystack with clay pots to party wall, shared with No. 14. Handmade red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to moulded granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement level. Eaves course rebuilt at later date. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals and granite sills. Replacement timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to basement and second floors, one-over-one pane to ground floor, nine-over-six pane to first floor, and three-over-three pane to top floor. Decorative later cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Pedimented painted stone doorcase comprising original painted timber door with nine raised and fielded panels flanked by engaged Doric columns on plinth blocks supporting stepped lintel cornice, with entablature forming support to open-bed pediment housing plain fanlight. Door opens onto limestone-flagged platform with two nosed granite steps, bridging basement, enclosed to either side by original, painted wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth wall and having cast-iron posts to corners. Railing encloses basement area inaccessible from street. Some original timber sliding window sashes to rear elevation. Interior greatly deteriorated but retaining considerable amounts of original fabric. Moulded chair rails, joinery, and modest but elegant Neo-classical plasterwork to entrance hall. Black and white flagstone floors leading to stair hall to staircase with turned balusters, terminating in a curtail, with dentillated cornice above. Rear drawing room having exposed brick walls, beaded panelled doors, and foliate frieze with one original timber sliding sash window to rear. Many rooms maintain original shutters.