house — Hume Street

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1785. Now in use as offices. M-profile roof, hipped to west, behind rebuilt parapet with granite coping, and having large buff brick chimneystack to east party wall with yellow clay pots, parapet gutters and shared replacement uPVC hopper and downpipe breaking to east. Flemish bond red brick walling, refaced to upper floors, with painted masonry plinth course over painted rendered walling to basement. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with brick voussoirs, painted masonry sills and painted rendered reveals. Timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to first (lacking horns) and second floor (with ogee horns), three-over-three pane to top floor, one-over-one pane to ground floor, and three-over-six pane (lacking horns) to basement with iron grille. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Round-headed door opening with painted rendered masonry doorcase having engaged Ionic columns with acanthus flower-enriched capitals, plain entablature, leaded petal fanlight with scalloped archivolt, and ten-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with four steps to street, flanked by wrought-iron railings on painted granite plinth with decorative cast-iron corner posts, extending east to enclose basement area.