house — Pearse Street

Terraced former pair of two-bay three-storey over basement houses, built 1825, now in single use with recent vehicular access inserted to ground floor and two-storey flat roofed extension to rear (south) elevation. Now in use as part of college. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to centre, concealed behind rebuilt red brick parapet with carved granite coping and red brick chimneystacks having clay pots. Red brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls, with granite plinth course over smooth rendered wall to basement, and yellow brick, partly laid in English garden wall bond to rear. Smooth rendered wall to rear extension. Square-headed window openings with masonry sills, raised render reveals to front, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, Wyatt windows to rear, round-headed window openings to rear with multiple-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Wrought-iron bars to basement window. Recent square-headed carriage arch. Round-headed door opening having moulded masonry surround, render doorcase comprising panelled pilasters, fluted console brackets, entablature, petal fanlight and timber panelled door. Granite steps with cast-iron boot scrape, flanked by wrought-iron railings, with some mild-steel repairs, on carved granite plinth enclosing basement area. Fronting to south of Pearse Street.