house — Mount Street Upper

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1820 as one of terrace of four (Nos. 15-18), having gabled two-storey return to east end of rear. Now in use as clinic and apartments. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to east end of rear span, with terracotta ridge tiles, behind brick parapet with granite coping and parapet gutters. Shouldered brick chimneystacks to west party wall with clay pots. Shared cast-iron downpipe. Flemish bond brown brick walling on granite plinth course over painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted masonry sills and painted rendered reveals. Replacement timber sliding sash windows, hornless eight-over-eight pane to basement, ogee-horned three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Rear has apparently timber sash bipartite four-over-four pane windows. Round-headed painted masonry doorcase having moulded surround, Ionic columns, entablature with panelled frieze and moulded cornice, replacement leaded fanlight and replacement timber panelled door with brass furniture. Shared granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and five bull-nosed granite steps. Decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area, with cast-iron gate. Cast-iron coal-hole cover to pavement. Replacement door and windows beneath entrance platform. Small garden to rear, large single-storey building to much of rest of plot, and recent two-storey building and yard to rear of plot.