house — Herbert Street

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1840 as one of pair (Nos. 14-15) within longer row of similar houses, rear having two-storey hipped roof return to north end and fire escape to south end. 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. Shared cast-iron downpipe and hopper. Flemish bond red brick walling on granite plinth course over painted rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with granite sills, rendered reveals and brick voussoirs. Timber sliding sash windows with generally ogee horns, three-over-three pane to top floor, six-over-six pane to ground, first and second floors, and replacement three-over-three pane to basement (glazing bar missing to lower section). Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor and wrought-iron window-guards to second floor. Round-headed doorway with painted moulded surround and masonry doorcase comprising pro-style Ionic columns, plain entablature, decorative leaded fanlight and six-panel timber door with beaded muntin and brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and three bull-nosed granite steps. Decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area, with cast-iron gate. Yard to rear, with modernized or replacement two-storey mews building to rear of plot with recent extension to lane side.