house — Mount Street Lower

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1815 as one in terrace (Nos. 15-21), having bowed bay to east end of rear elevation, and one, two and three-storey flat-roofed returns to rear. Converted for use as offices and apartments. Pitched roof to front span, hipped to west end, behind brick parapet with granite coping, with two unequal hipped roofs to rear, larger over bow, and having terracotta ridge tiles. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to east with clay pots. Parapet gutters, and replacement aluminium downpipe to rear. Flemish bond buff brick walling, rebuilt to top floor, on granite plinth over painted smooth-rendered basement walling; English garden wall bond buff brick to rear; smooth rendered walling to return. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals and painted granite sills, with round-headed stairs window to west end of rear. Replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns to ground and first floors and replacement timber windows to top floors above and to basement, latter with steel grille. Multiple-pane timber sliding sashes to rear (some apparently replacement), some eight-over-eight pane. Round-headed doorcase with painted moulded surround, entablature with fluted frieze and moulded cornice on columns with Adamesque Ionic capitals, spoked fanlight and timber door with two round-headed bolection-moulded panels and brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with broken boot-scrape and five steps to street. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on moulded granite plinth. Rear of plot has small garden, with carparking otherwise.