house — Herbert Street

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1840 as one of pair (Nos. 12-13) within longer row of similar houses, having two-storey hipped roof return to south end of rear. Now in commercial office use. M-profile slate roof, hipped to south end of rear, having brick parapet with granite coping and parapet gutters. Shouldered brick chimneystack to north end. Shared cast-iron and replacement uPVC downpipe to south end. Flemish bond red brick walling on granite plinth course over painted rendered basement walling; rendered basement to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with masonry sills, patent reveals and brick voussoirs. Timber late nineteenth-century bipartite side-hung timber casement windows to ground, first and second floors with transom lights and some historic glass, and timber sliding sash elsewhere, three-over-three pane to top floor with convex horns and eighteen-over-twelve pane to basement window. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor, wrought-iron window-guards to second floor, and wrought-iron grille to basement. Timber sash windows to rear, three-over-three pane to top floor, south bay having round-headed six-over-six pane window and north bay having eight-over-eight pane window to second floor and tripartite six-over-six pane below. Round-headed doorway with render surround and painted masonry doorcase comprising pro-style Ionic columns, plain entablature, peacock's tail fanlight and six-panel timber door with beaded muntin and recent brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and four bull-nosed granite steps. Decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area, with cast-iron gate. Yard to rear, with modernized two-storey mews building and yard to rear of plot.