house — Hume Street

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1777 as pair with No. 13 to east. Now in commercial office use. M-profile pitched roof, hipped to west end, flat-roofed to valley, fronted by brick parapet with granite coping over cement-rendered frieze. Rendered brick chimneystacks to west elevation and long stack to party wall shared with No. 13, with yellow clay and terracotta pots. Valley gutters and shared cast-iron downpipe with hopper. Flemish bond red brick walling with granite plinth course and platband over painted smooth rendered basement walls. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted rendered reveals and granite sills, also having block-and-start granite surrounds to basement windows. Timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six pane to ground and first floors with some historic glass, six-over-six pane to second floor and basement and three-over-three pane to top floor. Rear has timber sash windows of similar fenestration to front, with round-headed stairs windows to west bay. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor and iron grilles to basement. Round-headed door opening having doorcase with open-bed pediment having triglyph entablature on engaged Doric columns, leaded petal fanlight, recessed eleven-panel timber door with panelled reveals and brass furniture and flanked by one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with leaded diamond motif. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and three steps from street. Wrought-iron railings with decorative wrought and cast-iron posts over granite plinth and extending east to enclose basement area. Partly abutted to rear, with yard and garden.