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, and having two-storey hipped roof return to north end of rear. Now in commercial office use. M-profile slate roof, hipped to north end of rear, having brick parapet with granite coping and parapet gutters. Shouldered brick chimneystack to south end. Shared cast-iron and replacement uPVC downpipe to north end. Flemish bond red brick walling on granite plinth course over painted rendered basement walling; rendered to basement at rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with masonry sills, patent reveals and brick voussoirs. Timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor, six-over-six pane to ground, first and second floors with convex horns except for chamfered horns to ground floor, and with replacement uPVC to basement. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor and wrought-iron window-guards to second floor. Round-headed doorway with painted render surround and masonry doorcase comprising pro-style Ionic columns, plain entablature, replacement peacock's tail fanlight and six-panel timber door with beaded muntin and 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.