house — Fitzwilliam Street Lower

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1790 as one of two (Nos. 9-10). Formerly in use as hotel, vacant at time of record (2016). Full-height flat-roofed returns to rear. M-profile pitched slate roof, having parapet with masonry coping and parapet gutters. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to party walls with yellow clay pots; and shared cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods to north 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, having patent reveals and painted masonry sills. Timber sliding sash windows, replacement six-over-six pane with convex horns to lower floors and three-over-three pane with ogee horns to top floor. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor openings. Apparently timber sash windows to rear elevation. Elliptical-headed principal doorway with moulded render surround, painted masonry doorcase having cornice, fluted frieze with rosettes over Adamesque Ionic columns, leaded batwing fanlight and eight-panel raised-and-fielded timber door with brass furniture. Late nineteenth-century black and white tiled entrance platform with single painted masonry step to street, having basement areas to each side enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts and later lamp standards on painted granite plinth. uPVC skylights to accommodation within basement areas.