house — Mount Street Upper

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1825 as one of pair with No. 19, having two-storey return to rear. Now in commercial office use. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to east end of front span, behind parapet with granite coping and parapet gutters. Brick chimneystack to party wall. Shared cast-iron downpipe and hopper. Brown brick walling laid in Flemish bond on granite plinth course over painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with granite sills, patent reveals and brick voussoirs. Timber sliding sash windows, eight-over-four pane to basement and six-over-six pane elsewhere, some with cavetto horns. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor, wrought-iron window-guards to top two floors and steel grille to basement. Rear elevation has apparently timber sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane below, including round-headed stairs window to east bay. Elliptical-headed doorway with moulded surround, painted masonry doorcase having engaged columns with Scamozzian capitals supporting entablature with panelled frieze, decorative peacock's tail fanlight and eleven-panel timber door with brass furniture. Shared granite entrance platform with decorative cast-iron boot-scrape, accessed by five granite steps. Decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on granite plinth enclosing basement area, latter accessed by cast-iron gate and mild-steel steps. Recent square-headed door and window beneath entrance platform. carparking and recent two-storey apartment block to rear of plots of Nos. 19-21.