Electricity Supply Board — Mount Street Upper

Corner-sited two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1810 as end one of terrace of three houses, with two-bay side elevation. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to west end of front span, concealed by brick parapet with granite coping and parapet gutters, and having red brick chimneystacks to east with terracotta pots, and with cast-iron downpipe to east. Flemish bond red brick walling, having rusticated granite corner quoins, on masonry plinth course over painted smooth-rendered basement; yellow brick walls to east elevation; painted render to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals and masonry sills. Replacement timber sliding sash windows with simple horns, six-over-three pane to top floor, three-over-six pane to basement and six-over-six pane elsewhere; rear and side elevations have timber sash six-pane windows. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor of front elevation and wrought-iron grilles to east and rear ground floor windows. Wide metal door to front basement. Round-headed principal doorway with painted masonry columns, Ionic capitals, plain entablature, leaded batwing fanlight and four-panel timber door with beaded muntin and brass furniture. Shared granite platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and two steps to street level. Basement area to north and east enclosed by decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth. Abutted to rear by late twentieth-century buildings.