house — North Great George's Street

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1785. Now in multiple occupancy. Built as pair with No. 5. Pitched slate roof concealed behind parapet wall with granite coping. Stepped rendered red brick chimneystacks with clay pots to party walls, shared with Nos. 5 and 7. Handmade red brick walls laid in Flemish bond on moulded granite plinth course over rendered and painted walls to basement level. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to basement and second floors, nine-over-six pane to ground and first floors, and three-over-three pane to top floor. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Pedimented painted stone doorcase comprising: reproduction timber panelled door flanked by engaged Doric columns on plinth blocks supporting stepped lintel cornice, with entablature forming support to open-bed pediment housing simple spoked fanlight. Door opens onto replacement granite paved platform bridging basement area and replacement granite step to street. Platform enclosed by wrought-iron railing on moulded granite plinth wall and cast-iron corner posts. Railing also encloses basement area with matching iron gate. Tiled steps descending to half-landing shared with No. 5, returning to basement level with timber and steel handrail. Three-bay rear elevation with full-height semi-circular apse.