house — Mountjoy Square East

Terraced two-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1815, as one of six houses. Now in commercial office use. Double-pile slate roof, pitched to front with two hipped rear projections. Roof hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping and decorative lead hopper and lead downpipe with embossed lead brackets, breaking through to south end. Stepped brick chimneystacks with clay pots to both party walls. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond, rebuilt to top two floors, with iron tie-plates. Chamfered granite plinth course above painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walls. Cement rendered walls to rear elevation. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground to top floors and recent replacement single-pane window to basement. Decorative bowed wrought-iron balconettes to first floor. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with moulded stucco surround and painted stone Ionic doorcase. Replacement timber panelled door flanked by plain rendered jambs and Ionic columns on plinth bases supporting lintel cornice and replacement fanlight. Door opens onto granite platform and four granite steps bridging basement. Platform and basement enclosed by original wrought-iron railings with integrated bootscraper to platform railing and replacement cast-iron corner posts set on moulded granite plinth wall to street. Rear elevation abutted by narrow full-height return to north and corrugated-iron clad two-storey addition. Modern profile metal-clad industrial building and further full-width single-storey roughcast rendered building forming rear boundary to Charles Lane.