house — South Frederick Street

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1740, with gabled rear elevation and full-height gabled closet return. Modified c. 1830. Now in commercial use and having display window to ground floor. Cruciform-plan artificial slate roof, half-hipped to front behind parapet with masonry coping; central rendered chimneystack to north party wall with variety of pots; and concealed gutters, and replacement uPVC downpipes. Flemish bond brown brick walling, reconstructed to top floor in English garden wall bond, with slated projecting plinth over painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement; rendered walling to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals, painted masonry sills and timber sliding sash windows with simple horns, six-over-six pane to first floor, eight-over-eight pane to second floor with decorative wrought-iron balconettes, full-height multiple-pane timber bay window to ground floor with opening casements and leaded flat roof, tripartite six-over-six pane window to basement with metal railings, and uPVC windows to rear. Round-headed door opening with granite block-and-start door surround, batwing fanlight over granite lintel, and six-panel timber door. Masonry platform bridging basement with cast-iron boot-scrape. Basement area enclosed by decorative cast-iron railings on painted moulded plinth, with separate entrance gate and recent steel steps accessing basement.