house — Mount Street Upper

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1830 as one in group of three (Nos. 35-37), rear having two-storey return to west end and fire escape to east end. Now in commercial office use. M-profile roof, having brick parapet with moulded projecting masonry coping with parapet gutters and platband. Shouldered brick chimneystacks to east with yellow clay 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 ashlar stone walls to basement; brick to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, having painted masonry sills, rendered reveals and brick voussoirs, with raised painted stone architrave to basement. Timber sliding sash windows (some replacements), six-over-six pane to middle floors with horns and some historic glass, six-over-three pane to top floor and eighteen-over-eighteen pane to basement. Decorative cast-iron balcony spanning first floor windows, and steel grille to basement. Apparently timber sash windows to rear, with round-headed stairs window to west bay. Round-headed painted masonry doorcase with moulded surround, pro-style fluted Doric columns, entablature, triglyphs to frieze, peacock's tail fanlight and eleven-panel timber door with recent brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with five bull-nosed granite steps and decorative cast-iron boot-scrape. Decorative cast-iron railings on painted moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area. Cast-iron gate and mild steel steps lead down to basement. carparking to rear of plot.