house — Mount Street Upper

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1830 as one of pair with No. 44, having two-storey return to west end of rear. Now in office use. Pitched slate roof to front span, behind brick parapet (rebuilt to rear) with granite coping and parapet gutters, cornice and platband to front elevation, hipped roof to east end of rear and shared hipped roof to west end of rear. Brick chimneystacks with terracotta pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flemish bond red brick walling to upper floors, rebuilt above mid-point of top two floors, rusticated granite walling to ground floor with projecting granite course above and below, over painted rendered basement walling; brown brick walling to rear on painted masonry plinth over painted rendered basement walling; and brown brick to return. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals and painted masonry sills; round-headed stairs opening to rear elevation. Timber sliding sash windows with angled horns, one-over-one pane to ground floor, three-over-three pane to top floor, ten-over-ten pane to basement with reeded glass, and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Wrought-iron window-guards to second floor and wrought-iron grille to basement, with decorative cast-iron balconette to first floor at rear. Apparently timber sash windows to rear, with eight-over-eight pane to middle floors of east bay. Round-headed doorcase with moulded surround, pro-style fluted Doric columns, plain entablature, peacock's tail fanlight and eleven-panel timber door with brass furniture. Stone-paved 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. carparking and recent flat-roofed building to rear of plot.