house — Mount Street Upper

Attached two-bay three-storey former house with half dormer attic over basement, built c. 1825 as one of pair with No. 21, two-storey return to rear. Now in commercial office use. Pitched single-span roof, shared with No. 21, having pair of gabled dormers to front slope with replacement uPVC windows and otherwise timber fittings, and single dormer to rear. Brick chimneystack, parapet with granite coping and parapet gutters. Shared cast-iron downpipe and hopper. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond on granite plinth course over painted 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, hornless to top floor and with ogee horns elsewhere, eight-over-four pane to basement and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows and wrought-iron grille to basement. Rear elevation has apparently timber sash windows, six-over-six pane to top floor and one-over-one pane below. 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 and five granite steps. Decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area, with cast-iron gate. Decorative cast-iron coal-hole to pavement. Concrete steps to basement area and recent square-headed door beneath entrance platform. carparking and recent two-storey building and yard to rear of plot.