house — Mount Street Crescent

Attached two-bay three-storey former house over basement, built c. 1836 as one of terrace of ten (Nos. 1-10), having flat-roofed three-storey return to east end of rear. Now in use as offices. M-profile pitched slate roof, rear span higher than front, hipped to east end of front span, brick parapet with granite coping, brown brick chimneystacks to west party wall with concrete copings, and concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond brown brick walling on painted plinth course over painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills and painted rendered reveals. Timber six-over-six pane sliding sash windows with convex horns to ground floor upwards, and paired early twentieth-century metal-framed casements to basement. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows. Apparently six-over-six pane timber sash windows to rear, with round-headed stairs window to east bay. Round-headed door opening with moulded surround and painted masonry doorcase comprising engaged fluted Doric columns, plain entablature, leaded peacock's tail fanlight and bolection-moulded four-panel timber door with brass furniture. Shared granite-paved entrance platform with two stages of three and four bull-nosed granite steps, two further rendered steps, and flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on painted moulded granite plinth. Recent square-headed timber door underneath entrance platform. Decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings to front boundary on painted moulded granite plinth. Garden and recent two-storey building (straddling plot of No. 8) to rear of plot.