house — Mount Street Upper

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1820 as one of terrace of four (Nos. 11-14), having gabled three-storey rear return. Now in use as offices and apartments. M-profile pitched slate roof, behind brick parapet with granite coping and parapet gutters. Shouldered brick chimneystacks to party walls (partially rebuilt to east) with clay pots (octagonal to east), brick chimneystack to gabled return. Shared replacement uPVC downpipes. Flemish bond brown brick walling on granite plinth course over painted rendered basement walling; English garden wall bond brick to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted masonry sills, painted rendered reveals and brick voussoirs. Timber sliding sash windows with horns, three-over-three pane to top floor, eight-over-eight pane to basement and six-over-six pane elsewhere (one first floor window hornless). Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Six-over-six pane to round-headed stairs window, and three-light timber casement to rear. Round-headed principal doorway with moulded surround and painted masonry doorcase comprising fluted Doric columns, plain entablature, spoked fanlight and six-panel timber door with brass furniture, including figurative knocker. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and five granite steps. Decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on painted moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area, with cast-iron gate. Concrete steps and plainly detailed recent door to basement. Further two-storey building, recent two-storey mews and carparking to rear of plot.