house — Herbert Street

Corner-sited three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1850, with recessed three-storey canted-bay to south elevation with Doric entrance porch. Now in use as apartments. Pitched slate roof to front and two hipped roofs perpendicular to street to rear and hipped roof to canted-bay, concealed behind brick parapet with granite coping. Brick chimneystacks with clay pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods to canted-bay and to north end of front elevation. Flemish bond red brick walls, with granite quoins, on granite plinth course over ashlar granite walls to basement to front and south elevations; Flemish bond yellow brick walls to south elevation. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with granite sills; carved granite block-and-start surrounds to basement. Timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor, two-over-two pane to basement and six-over-six pane elsewhere to front and south elevations. Wrought-iron window-guards to all floors above basement level and to top floor of south elevation, decorative to ground and first floors, and with wrought-iron grilles to basement. Rear elevation of north bay has tripartite two-over-two pane window to top floor and quadripartite one-over-one pane below, south bay has two-over-two pane windows, and top two floors of rear have wrought-iron window-guards. Square-headed doorway with dentillated cornice and four-panel double-leaf timber door within granite porch having Doric columns and pilasters, granite frieze and cornice. Granite platform with remnants of cast-iron boot-scrapes, and four bull-nosed granite steps. Ornate cast-iron railings and gates on carved granite plinth wall enclosing basement area to front. Cast-iron coal-hole covers in granite flags to footpath. Large recent single-storey mews building to rear of plot.