house — Mount Street Upper

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1830 as one of terrace of three (Nos. 52-54), having two-storey rear return. Now in use as offices. M-profile pitched slate roof, having brick parapet with granite coping and parapet gutters, cornice and platband. Shouldered red brick chimneystacks with octagonal clay pots. Flemish bond red brick walling to upper floors, rusticated granite walling to ground floor with projecting moulded granite sill course above and projecting masonry course below, over painted tool-faced coursed limestone basement walls; brick to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals and painted masonry sills, and having granite surrounds to basement and ground floors. Timber sliding sash windows, front elevation having one-over-one pane to ground and first floors with ogee horns, six-over-six pane to second floor and six-over-three pane to top floor with convex horns, and ten-over-ten pane to basement; rear elevation has three-over-three pane window to top floor and six-over-six pane to middle floors, tripartite to first floor. Front elevation has ornate cast-iron balcony spanning first floor windows, and wrought-iron grille to basement window. Round-headed doorcase with moulded reveals, pro-style columns with Ionic capitals, plain entablature, batwing fanlight and four-panel timber door with beaded muntin and replacement brass furniture. Shared granite entrance platform with decorative cast-iron boot-scrape and five bull-nosed steps to street. Decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area, with cast-iron gate and mild steel steps leading to basement. Plain square-headed door opening beneath entrance platform. Cast-iron coal-hole to pavement. Double-pile rubble stone mews building to rear of plot, rubble limestone boundary wall to lane with brick coping and cornice and vehicular gate to square-headed opening.