house — Buckingham Street Upper

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1800, recently restored. Now in use as short term holiday apartments. Triple-span roof, pitched slate to front, flat-roofed to centre and hipped to rear, behind parapet wall with granite coping. Rebuilt red brick chimneystacks to both party walls with cast-iron hopper and downpipe to north gable. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to front and rear, with recent lime pointing. Chamfered granite plinth course over coursed and squared calp limestone basement walls. Gauged brick flat-arch window openings with flush rendered reveals, granite sills and early timber sliding sash windows with protective perspex sheeting, four-over-four to top floor, eight-over-eight to second floor, twelve-over-twelve to first floor, eight-over-twelve to ground floor and eight-over-eight to basement, all having convex horns. Timber sash windows also to rear elevation. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with tripartite painted masonry Adamesque Ionic doorcase. Replacement timber door with eleven raised-and-fielded panels flanked by engaged Ionic columns on plinth bases, sidelights with decorative lead tracery and responding Ionic pilasters, all supporting fluted and stepped lintel cornice with rosettes and large leaded cobweb fanlight with perspex protection. Door opens onto granite platform and three granite steps bridging basement. Basement area enclosed by decorative wrought-iron railings and cast-iron corner posts on moulded granite plinth wall.