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), and having two-storey single-pitched return to west end of rear. Now in commercial office use. Pitched slate roof to front span, hipped to west end, having hipped single-pitched roofs to rear span perpendicular to street, brick parapet with moulded projecting masonry coping, parapet gutters and platband. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to west with yellow clay pots and concrete coping. Flemish bond red brick walling to upper floors of front, rusticated ashlar granite to ground floor with projecting granite course above and below, over tool-faced ashlar limestone walls to basement; brick to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted masonry sills, rendered reveals and brick voussoirs, and with raised granite architrave to basement window opening. Timber sliding sash windows with cavetto horns, six-over-three pane to top floor, one-over-one pane to ground floor and basement, and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows, and wrought-iron grille to basement. Apparently timber sash windows to rear, with tripartite windows to ground and first floors of east bay. Round-headed painted masonry doorcase with moulded surround, pro-style fluted Doric columns, plain entablature, replacement peacock's tail fanlight and eleven-panel timber door with recent brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with decorative cast-iron boot-scrape and five bull-nosed granite steps. Decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area, with decorative openwork cast-iron pier to east end. Plain square-headed doorway beneath entrance platform. Garden to rear of plot.