house — South Frederick Street

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over concealed basement, built c. 1740, having full-height closet return, and later flat-roof extension to re-entrant angle. Now in use as café with offices over, having shopfront of c. 1900 to ground floor. Cruciform slate roof with valleys, half-hipped to east and west ends, concealed by rendered parapet with painted masonry coping to front elevation. Large shared rendered chimneystack to south party wall, rendered chimneystack to north of return; concealed gutters, and replacement cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Painted smooth rendered walling, unpainted to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent rendered reveals, painted masonry sills and replacement uPVC windows. Shopfront flanked by half-fluted pilasters on panelled plinth blocks supporting paired ogee console brackets to timber fascia with raised modern lettering, and having projecting dentillated cornice, timber display window on timber panelled stall-riser, integrated recessed replacement glazed timber door with overlight, recent tiled step to street and cast-iron basement lights. Replacement timber door to north end with overlight and having single granite step to street. Forms part of largely cohesive row of early houses.