house — Molesworth Street

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1750, east end of rear projecting, with slighter and lower four-storey addition to re-entrant corner, and having early nineteenth-century alterations and additions. Now in commercial office use. Slate roof, hipped to west end of front part behind brick parapet with masonry coping, two unequal hipped roofs perpendicular to rear, and brick chimneystack to east. Brown brick walling laid to Flemish bond, with wigged pointing (except for parapet) over painted rendered basement walling with masonry plinth over; rear is rendered. Camber-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals, painted masonry sills and brick voussoirs. Timber sliding sash windows, eight-over-eight pane to ground floor, six-over-six pane to first floor, three-over-six pane to second floor, three-over-three pane to top floor, and ten-over-ten pane to basement with iron grille; timber sash to rear, four-over-four pane to top floor and eight-over-eight pane to middle floors. Nineteenth-century ornate cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Round-headed doorcase with painted rendered reveals, pro-style Ionic columns, entablature with fluted frieze and rosettes, ornate festooned fanlight and eleven-panel timber door with recent brass furniture. Sloping granite entrance platform. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron corner posts on painted granite plinth, accessed from street by concrete steps, with concrete platform over porch addition.