house — Herbert Street

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1840 as one of pair (Nos. 5-6) within row of similar houses, and having three-storey return to rear. M-profile roof, hipped to south end of front span, having blind brick parapet with masonry coping, parapet gutters, cast-iron hopper and downpipe, and rendered shouldered chimneystacks to north end with terracotta pots. Flemish bond red brick walling on granite plinth course over painted rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, having painted rendered reveals, painted masonry sills and brick voussoirs. Timber sliding sash windows with generally cavetto horns, one-over-one pane to ground and first floors, six-over-six pane to second floor, three-over-three pane to top floor, and basement window concealed behind timber boarding. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor with scrolled panelled cast-iron trimmings to heads, and wrought-iron window-guards to second and top floors. Round-headed doorway with render surround and painted masonry doorcase comprising pro-style Ionic columns, plain entablature, peacock's tail fanlight and eleven-panel timber door with replacement brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with decorative cast-iron boot-scrape and four convex bull-nosed granite steps. Basement area enclosed by decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth. Plain square-headed door and window openings beneath entrance platform. Cast-iron gate and concrete steps lead down to basement. Modernized two-storey rendered mews building to rear of plot, concealed by recent rubble stone wall on Herbert Lane.