house — North Great George's Street

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built 1774, having single-storey rendered addition to rear with hipped, glazed roof. Pitched slate roof behind parapet wall with granite coping. Rendered chimneystack with clay pots to party wall, shared with No. 10. Handmade red brick walls, third floor rebuilt, laid in Flemish bond with cement pointing on moulded granite plinth course with slate drip hood, over rendered walls to basement level. 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 third floor. Rear elevation has round-headed stair-lights. Round-headed door opening with painted stone Doric doorcase. Original ten-panelled painted timber door flanked by engaged Doric columns on stone plinth blocks supporting deep cornice, and replacement peacock fanlight with moulded surrounds and scrolled keystone. Door opens onto sandstone flagged platform with two nosed sandstone steps, bridging basement, enclosed to either side by original wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth wall. Railing includes partially rebuilt wrought-iron four-sided corner posts with light poles. Railing with decorative scrolled wrought-iron panels, encloses basement area with matching iron gate, giving access to basement via steel staircase. Original Yorkstone water tank survives to basement area. Coursed random rubble stone boundary wall. Largely intact interior includes original plaster walls and ceilings, timber joinery and flooring. Basement having surviving tripartite stone frame stove and oven surround to kitchen, original exposed beams, scullery sink and completely intact sandstone flagged floor and skirting. Upper floors having large amounts of surviving late Rococo plasterwork with projecting birds, acanthus leaves and flower-baskets to rear rooms. First floor saloon having ceiling with flower vases, acanthus pendants and cartouches. Neo-classical over-doors and friezes with urns and festoons. Lugged architraves throughout and moulded joinery. Imposing fluted Doric architraves to round-headed windows at each half-landing. Chinese Chippendale stair to garret floor.