house — Mount Street Upper

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1830 as one of pair with No. 50, with two-storey return to rear. Now in use as offices. M-profile pitched slate roof, having brick parapet with granite coping and parapet gutters, cornice and platband. Brick chimneystacks to west (rendered to east) with octagonal and round 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 rendered walls to basement; brick to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals and painted masonry sills, and with granite surrounds to basement and ground floors. Timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns, ten-over-ten pane to basement and one-over-one pane elsewhere. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor and wrought-iron grille to basement. Timber sash windows to rear, three-over-three pane to top floor, eight-over-eight pane to second floor and tripartite six-over-six pane below, with round-headed stairs window to west bay. Round-headed doorcase with moulded surround, rosettes to impost level, pro-style fluted Doric columns, plain entablature, plain fanlight and six-panel timber door with beaded muntin and replacement brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with five bull-nosed steps to street. Decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area. Cast-iron gate and steel steps lead down to basement. Plain square-headed doorway beneath entrance platform. carparking to rear of plot, with rubble limestone boundary wall to lane.