house — Saint Stephen's Green

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built 1745-6 as pair with No. 42, with full-height gabled closet return to rear, modified c. 1830 and c. 1900-30, and having single-storey extension wrapping around rear. Now in educational use. Cruciform-plan slate roof, hipped to front end, having shared brown brick chimneystack to north end with clay pots. Flemish bond brown brick parapet with masonry copings and concealed gutters, with cast-iron downpipe shared with adjoining building. Ruled-and-lined rendered walling on granite plinth course, with rendered walling to basement; painted rendered walling to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in size to upper floors, with painted granite sills. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, having cast-iron vignettes to first, second and top floors; timber sash to rear, four-over-four pane to top floor, eight-over-eight to second floor and various elsewhere, and six-over-six pane and nine-over-nine pane to return. Elliptical-headed doorcase with Doric columns, fluted entablature, peacock leaded fanlight, and replacement flat-panel timber door with brass door furniture. Interior has two principal rooms flanked by entrance and stairs hall compartment, with remnants of original raised and fielded panelling, now mostly replacement. Stairs hall has fluted Corinthian pilasters, timber dog-leg staircase with turned balusters, carved handrail and plain tread ends. Fielded wall-linings, timber panelled doors with lugged-and-kneed architraves generally, and marble chimneypieces. Granite platform bridging basement area, with four bull-nosed steps and cast-iron boot-scrape. Decorative cast-iron railings with finials on moulded granite plinth wall enclosing basement area. Carparking to rear of plot.