house — Ely Place

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1790, almost fully abutted to rear. Now in use as offices. M-profile slate roof, hipped to north end, behind rebuilt brick parapet with masonry coping, and having shouldered rendered chimneystacks to south party wall. Parapet gutters with cast-iron hopper and downpipe. Flemish bond red brick walling, rebuilt in English garden wall bond to top floor, with painted granite plinth over painted rendered basement. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with raised rendered reveals, painted granite sills and timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane with convex horns to middle floors, one-over-one pane to ground floor and three-over-three pane to top floor without horns. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows. Round-headed door opening with moulded rendered reveals, painted masonry doorcase comprising engaged pilasters with stiff-leaf capitals, plain entablature, petal fanlight in scalloped archivolt and replacement ten-panel timber door with recent chrome furniture. Granite entrance platform bridging basement area, with cast-iron boot-scrape, three steps to street, and flanked by spear-headed cast-iron railings on painted granite plinth enclosing basement area (now partially covered). Building slightly set back from No. 20 to north.