house — Dawson Street

Attached two-bay four-storey former house, built c. 1723, as south end-of-terrace of three (Nos. 51A-51C). Now in retail and office use, and having projecting replacement timber shopfront to ground floor. Slate roof, running parallel to street, hipped behind high parapet wall to front and pitched to rear, and having clay ridge and hip tiles. Painted ruled-and-lined smooth render to upper floors, with granite frieze, cornice and blocking course to parapet, and channelled smooth render to ground floor beneath continuous moulded first floor sill course. Square-headed window openings to upper floors with moulded render surrounds, painted masonry sills to second and third floors, and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows diminishing in height upwards. Doorway to north appears to serve both Nos. 51A and 51B Dawson Street, having timber four-panel door set in doorcase with slender moulded pilasters carrying decorative consoles with moulded cornice transom, plain fanlight, and approached by granite steps and landing with flanking plinth walls carrying decorative cast-iron balustrades terminating at pavement in decorative cast-iron lamp standards on square cast-iron decorative bases on stone plinth. Interior has early eighteenth-century wainscoted stairs hall and Rococo cornice in principal first floor room (Casey, 2005).