house — Hume Street

Corner-sited three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1785 as pair with No. 10 to west, having two-bay bowed east elevation. Now in use as offices. Pitched roof, hipped to east end, behind red brick parapet with moulded granite coping over rendered platband, buff brick chimneystack over rendered base to west party wall with yellow clay pots, parapet gutters, and cast-iron hopper and downpipe. Flemish bond red brick walling, refaced above second floor window heads, over painted masonry plinth course above painted rendered walling to basement. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with brick voussoirs, painted granite sills and painted rendered reveals. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns, frames and glass curved to bowed east elevation, and replacement uPVC to basement with iron grilles. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Round-headed door opening with painted rendered masonry doorcase with Ionic columns having acanthus flower-enriched capitals, plain entablature, ornate leaded fanlight with scalloped archivolt, and ten-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with two steps to street, flanked by spear-headed cast-iron railings on painted granite plinth, extending east to enclose basement area.