house — South Frederick Street

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1740, with full-height gable-ended closet return. Now in commercial use. Modified c. 1820. Cruciform-plan replacement slate roof, half-hipped to front and rear ends, and having brown brick parapet with projecting masonry coping, concealed gutters, and replacement uPVC downpipes. Large rendered chimneystack to north party wall. Flemish bond brown brick walling with rudimentary tuck pointing, reconstructed to top floor, and having painted rendered walling to basement and smooth rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted patent reveals and painted masonry sills, and with basement windows set into camber-headed recesses. Timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to middle floors, two-over-two pane to ground floor with ogee horns, three-over-three pane to top floor, and largely replacement timber casements to rear. Segmental-headed door opening with mid-nineteenth-century doorcase, having bolection mouldings, engaged Ionic columns, entablature with panelled frieze, batwing fanlight, and six-panel timber door with brass furniture and beaded muntin. Cement-paved platform bridging basement with single bull-nosed step to street level, and cast-iron boot-scrape. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron post, on painted moulded granite plinth, with separate entrance gate and recent steel steps.