house — Mount Street Upper

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1830 as one of pair with No. 41, having two-storey single-pitched return to east end of rear. Now in office use. Pitched slate roof to front span, behind brick parapet with granite coping, parapet gutters, cornice and platband, hipped roof to west end of rear and shared hipped roof to east end of rear. Brick chimneystacks to west with terracotta pot. Shared cast-iron downpipe. Flemish bond red brick walling to upper floors, rusticated granite walling to ground floor with projecting granite course above and below, and painted rendered basement walling; brown brick to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals and painted masonry sills; round-headed stairs window opening to rear. Timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor, ten-over-ten pane to basement and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Decorative wrought-iron balconettes to first floor, wrought-iron window-guards to second and top floors, wrought-iron grille to basement, and decorative cast-iron balconette to first floor of rear. Apparently timber sash windows to rear, with eight-over-eight pane windows to middle floors. 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 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, with cast-iron gate. Yard to rear of plot and two-storey flat-roofed twentieth-century office block to rearmost part of plot straddling Nos. 38-42.