house — Mount Street Lower

Attached end-of-terrace two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1810, with late Victorian frontage to ground floor and now forming east end of row (Nos. 59-61), having three-storey flat-roofed rear return. Now in commercial office use. M-profile slate roof, hipped to west, with brick parapet having lead-lined coping over rendered cornice and platband, and parapet gutters. Flemish bond red brick walling with recent wigging, painted ruled-and-lined rendered ground floor and basement with granite plinth course between; rendered to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals, granite sill course to first floor and granite sills elsewhere, with brick voussoirs to top three floors, and moulded rendered architrave to ground floor with moulded lintel cornice on scrolled brackets. Replacement timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor, two-over-two pane to basement and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Basket-handle-headed door opening with three-stage moulded reveals, projecting vermiculated keystone supporting hood-moulding over dentillated and vermiculated segmental-headed voussoirs, plain fanlight, dentillated cornice and bolection-moulded timber-panelled door. Granite-paved entrance platform with remnant of cast-iron boot-scrape, and with three bull-nosed steps to street level. Basement area enclosed by decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on painted masonry plinth.