house — Mount Street Crescent

Attached two-bay three-storey former house over basement, built c. 1836 as one in terrace of ten houses (Nos. 1-10), having three-storey return to east end of rear. M-profile pitched slate roof, rear span slightly higher than front and hipped to east end, with terracotta ridge tiles, brick parapet with granite coping, shouldered brown brick chimneystacks to west partially rebuilt and having replacement terracotta pots, and concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond brown brick walling on granite plinth course over painted rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings having granite sills, painted rendered reveals and brick voussoirs. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with convex horns. 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, replacement peacock's tail fanlight and four-panel bolection-moulded timber door with replacement chrome furniture. Shared granite-paved entrance platform, reached by two flights of three and four bull-nosed granite steps with intervening platform having metal coal-hole cover, and bounded by decorative cast-iron railing on moulded granite plinth. Shared granite step and concrete footpath to street. Plainly detailed timber doors to basement, beneath platform. Front boundary has cast-iron pedestrian gate with round-headed openwork cast-iron piers, and decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on granite plinth. Garden and modernized two-storey mews building to rear of plot. Building set back from terrace to west and forward of rest of terrace to east.