house — Mount Street Crescent

Attached two-bay three-storey former house over basement, built c. 1836 in re-entrant corner of two terraces on different lines (set back from terrace to west and forward of terrace to east), but forming part of latter (Nos. 1-10), having two-storey return to west end of rear. Now in use as offices. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to west end of rear span, behind brick parapet with granite coping and parapet gutters; shouldered brown brick chimneystacks to east gabled wall having concrete coping and no pots; and cast-iron hopper and downpipes to east elevation. Flemish bond brown brick walling on granite plinth course over painted lined-and-ruled rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings, diminishing to upper floors, with painted masonry sills, painted rendered reveals and brick voussoirs. Timber sliding sash windows with convex horns, paired replacement two-over-two pane to basement with ogee horns and exposed sash boxes, and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows. Apparently timber sash windows to rear with varied two-over-two, six-over-six and eight-over-eight pane arrangements. Round-headed doorway with moulded surround and painted masonry doorcase having engaged fluted Doric columns, plain entablature, decorative peacock's tail fanlight and four-panel bolection-moulded timber door with beaded muntin and brass furniture. Sandstone-paved entrance platform, reached by two flights of three bull-nosed and four plain granite steps with intervening platform having decorative cast-iron coal-hole cover, and bounded by decorative cast-iron railing on granite plinth. Sandstone footpath to street. Front boundary has cast-iron pedestrian gate with round-headed cast-iron piers, and decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth. Plainly detailed timber doors to basement, beneath platform. Yard and modernized two-storey mews building to rear of plot.