house — Herbert Street

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1840 as one of terrace of five (Nos. 7-11) within longer row of similar houses, and having two-storey return and addition to south end of rear. Now in commercial office use. M-profile roof, hipped to south end of rear span, having blind brick parapet with masonry coping, parapet gutters. Shared replacement uPVC downpipe and hopper; and rendered chimneystack to north end with terracotta pots. Flemish bond red brick walling on granite plinth course over painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals, granite sills and brick voussoirs. Timber sliding sash windows with cavetto horns, replacement three-over-three pane to top floor, six-over-six pane to middle floors, fifteen-over-ten pane to basement, and late nineteenth-century bipartite timber casements to ground floor with horned leaded transom. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor and wrought-iron window-guards to second floor. Timber sash windows to rear, three-over-three pane to top floor, north bay having tripartite six-over-six pane windows to ground and first 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 steps. Basement area enclosed by decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth. Cast-iron gate and mild steel steps lead down to basement. Plain square-headed door opening beneath entrance platform. Yard and garden to rear, with modernized two-storey mews building to rear of plot.