house — Mount Street Upper

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1830 as one of pair with No. 42, with two-storey return to west end of rear. Now in commercial office use. Pitched roof to front and shared M-profile roof to rear span, having brick parapet with moulded projecting masonry coping with parapet gutters and platband to front. Rendered chimneystacks to east with mixed terracotta pots. Flemish bond red brick walling to upper floors, rusticated ashlar granite 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 patent reveals, painted masonry sills and brick voussoirs. Timber sliding sash windows with profiled horns, ten-over-ten pane to basement and one-over-one pane elsewhere, having ornate cast-iron balconettes to first floor and wrought-iron window-guards to floors above. Apparently timber sash windows to rear, eight-over-eight pane to middle floors of east bay. Round-headed doorcase with moulded rendered surround, pro-style fluted Doric columns, plain entablature, plain fanlight and eleven-panel timber door with recent chrome furniture. Stone-paved entrance platform with five bull-nosed steps to street and ornate cast-iron boot-scrape. Decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area, with cast-iron gate. Plain square-headed door and window openings beneath entrance platform. Yard to rear, single-storey building further back in plot and straddling Nos. 38-41 and further two-storey twentieth-century office block to rearmost part of plot straddling Nos. 38-42.