house — Mount Street Upper

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1830 as one of pair with No. 43, having two-storey return to east end of rear. Now in office use. Pitched slate roof to front span, behind brick parapet with granite coping with parapet gutters, cornice and platband, hipped roof to west end of rear and shared hipped roof to east end of rear. Rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots. Flemish bond red brick walling to upper floors of front with rusticated granite quoins to west end, rusticated granite walling to ground floor with projecting granite course above and below, over painted rendered basement walling; brick to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals and painted masonry sills. Timber sliding sash windows with profiled horns, one-over-one pane to ground and first floors, six-over-six pane to second floor and three-over-three pane to top floor. Wrought-iron window-guards to second floor, decorative cast-iron balconette to ground floor, steel balconettes to first floor and steel grille to basement. Apparently timber sash windows to rear, with round-headed stairs window to east bay. Round-headed doorcase with moulded surround, pro-style fluted Doric columns, plain entablature, peacock's tail fanlight and six-panel timber door with brass furniture and beaded muntin. Stone-paved entrance platform with ornate 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. Continuous buildings to rear of plot.