house — North Great George's Street

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over basement, built c.1785, with bowed two-storey and three-storey extensions to rear. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof behind rebuilt parapet wall with moulded granite coping, concealed gutter, shared red brick and rendered chimneystacks with clay pots. Flemish bond red brick walls with moulded granite ashlar plinth course, rendered wall to basement. Third floor rebuilt at later date in English garden wall bond. Diminishing square-headed window openings with gauged red brick voussoirs, patent rendered reveals and painted granite sills. Timber sliding sash windows throughout, six-over-six pane to basement, ground and first floors, nine-over-nine pane to first floor, and three-over-three pane to top floor. First floor window openings lengthened or dropped to create appearance of piano nobile. Round-headed door opening within pedimented painted stone doorcase comprising engaged Tuscan columns on plinth blocks surmounted by stepped lintel with cornice and entablatures forming support to open-bed pediment housing spoked fanlight with cast-iron tracery. Replacement timber panelled door opening to granite platform with stepped approach bridging basement area. Approach flanked by moulded granite plinth with wrought-iron railings with cast-iron finials enclosing basement area. Wrought-iron gate gives access to basement area via recent cement rendered steps with cast-iron handrail. Yard to rear enclosed by random rubble stone boundary wall.