house — Hume Street

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1780, having full-height hip-roofed closet return to rear. Now in use as offices. Pitched L-plan slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, fronted by rebuilt brick parapet with granite coping. Parapet gutters, cast-iron hopper and downpipe. Large buff brick chimneystack to east party wall with yellow clay pots. Flemish bond red brick walling with granite plinth course, over painted rendered walling to basement; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with brick voussoirs, granite sills and painted rendered reveals. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to lower floors with ogee horns and three-over-three pane to top floor. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor and decorative cast-iron grilles to basement; apparently timber sash windows to rear. Round-headed door opening with projecting painted masonry doorcase comprising entablature with fluted frieze and rosettes over engaged Adamesque Ionic columns, leaded cobweb fanlight and replacement eight-panel timber door with beaded muntin and recent brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and three steps to street. Basement area enclosed by spear-headed cast-iron railings with decorative corner posts over granite plinth. Recent door and window to basement in slated single-pitched porch, accessed by replacement mild-steel steps. Yard to rear.