house — Mount Street Crescent

Attached two-bay three-storey former house over basement, built c. 1836 as one in terrace of ten (Nos. 1-10), with pitched two-storey return to west end of rear. Now in use as offices. M-profile pitched slate roof, rear span higher than front, behind brick parapet with granite coping, brown brick chimneystacks to east party wall and rendered chimneystack to west, and concealed rainwater goods. 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 granite sills and painted rendered reveals, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns above basement level and paired multiple-pane early twentieth-century metal-framed casements to basement. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor and steel grilles to basement. Apparently replacement windows to rear. Round-headed doorway with moulded surround and painted masonry doorcase comprising engaged fluted Doric columns, plain entablature, leaded peacock's tail fanlight mounted in front of plain glass, and four-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite-paved entrance platform with two stages of three and five bull-nosed granite steps, flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth, further granite platform/step to street, and decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings to front boundary on moulded granite plinth, with matching pedestrian gate having round-topped openwork decorative cast-iron piers. carparking and modernized two-storey rubble stone mews building to rear of plot.