Embassy of Lesotho — 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 return to rear shared with No. 53. Now in use as embassy. M-profile pitched slate roof, having brick parapet with granite coping and parapet gutters, cornice and platband. Brick chimneystacks with octagonal clay pots. Flemish bond red brick walling to upper floors with rusticated granite quoins to east end, rusticated granite walling to ground floor with projecting moulded granite sill course above and projecting granite course below, over painted tool-faced coursed limestone walling to basement; brick to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals and painted masonry sills, and with granite surrounds to basement and ground floors. Timber sliding sash windows with ogee and angled horns, ten-over-ten pane to basement and one-over-one pane elsewhere. Timber sash windows to rear, with round-headed stairs window to west bay. Ornate cast-iron balcony spanning first floor, wrought-iron window-guards to second floor and wrought-iron grille to basement. Round-headed doorcase with moulded surround, pro-style painted masonry columns with Ionic capitals, plain entablature, leaded 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. Cast-iron gate and mild steel steps lead down to basement. Plain square-headed doorway beneath entrance platform. Cast-iron coal-hole to pavement. carparking and recent mews building to rear of plot, with random rubble limestone wall to lane with dressed limestone surrounds to pedestrian gate and projecting dressed limestone piers to segmental-headed brick carriage-arch with concrete tympanum and recent steel gates.