house — Fitzwilliam Street Lower

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1790 as one of two (Nos. 9-10). Vacant at time of record (2016). M-profile pitched slate roof, concealed by parapet with stone coping and parapet gutters. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to party walls with yellow clay pots. Shared cast-iron rainwater goods to south end. Flemish bond brown brick walling on painted masonry plinth over painted smooth rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals and painted masonry sills. Replacement timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor with ogee horns, eight-over-eight pane to basement without horns, and six-over-six pane elsewhere with convex horns. Decorative wrought-iron balconettes to first floor. Rear elevation has round-headed stairs window. Elliptical-headed doorway with moulded render surround, painted masonry doorcase comprising cornice, fluted frieze with rosettes over Adamesque Ionic columns, leaded batwing fanlight and eight-panel raised-and-fielded timber door with brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with two steps to street. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts and later cast-iron standard lamps on painted moulded granite plinth. Recent steel steps to basement. Fire escape to rear of building. Recent mews building to rear plot.