house — Mount Street Lower

Attached two-bay four-storey house former house over basement, built c. 1820. Now in use as offices. L-plan pitched slate roof to front and east end of rear, behind rebuilt red brick parapet with masonry coping hipped to east end, having further pitched rear roof to west end of rear, parallel to street and hipped to east end. Shouldered rendered chimneystack to west party wall with clay pots. Concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond buff brick walling, wigged and colour-washed to lower floors on granite plinth course over painted rendered walling to basement; rendered walling to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, having brick voussoirs, rendered reveals and granite sills. Replacement uPVC windows to basement; timber sliding sash windows elsewhere, early six-over-six pane to second floor and six-over-three pane to top floor, all without horns, and largely replacement one-over-one pane with horns otherwise; apparently timber sash windows to rear with nine-over-six and eight-over-eight pane arrangements. Round-headed door opening with moulded reveals, recessed surround comprising round-headed panelled pilasters, stiff-leaf consoles, lintel cornice, plain fanlight and four-panel timber door with beaded muntin and brass furniture. Replacement concrete entrance platform with three steps to street. Basement area enclosed by replacement decorative cast-iron railings with barley-twist uprights having pike-head finials and other details on painted masonry plinth. Replacement timber panelled door beneath entrance platform, accessed by tiled masonry steps.