house — Mount Street Upper

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1830 as one of terrace of three (Nos. 38-40), having two and three-storey return to east end of rear. Now in commercial office use. M-profile roof, having brick parapet with moulded projecting masonry coping with parapet gutters and platband. Brick chimneystacks to west with terracotta pots. Flemish bond red brick walling to upper floors of front, rusticated ashlar granite to ground floor with projecting granite course above and below, over painted tooled-faced ashlar stone walls to basement; 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 cavetto horns and some historic glass, six-over-three pane to top floor, ten-over-ten pane to basement and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Wrought-iron window-guards to second floor. Apparently timber sash windows to rear, eight-over-eight pane to west bay and round-headed stairs window to east. Round-headed doorcase with moulded rendered surround, pro-style fluted Doric columns, plain entablature, leaded 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 painted moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area, with cast-iron gate. Plain square-headed doorway beneath entrance platform. carparking to rear, single-storey building further back in plot straddling Nos. 39-42, and two-storey twentieth-century office block to rearmost part of plot and straddling plots to Nos. 38-42.