house — Herbert Place

Attached two-bay three-storey former house over raised basement, built c. 1815 as one of twelve (Nos. 4-15) within longer row of similar houses, with three-storey flat-roofed return to south end of rear. Now in office use. M-profile roof, hipped to south end, having brick parapet with moulded granite coping and parapet gutters. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to north party wall with clay pots. Shared cast-iron and replacement uPVC downpipes to rear. Flemish bond buff brick walling on painted masonry plinth course over rendered basement walling; English garden wall bond to rear, and smooth rendered to return. Square-headed window openings with painted rendered reveals and painted granite sills; rendered surround to basement opening set in segmental-headed recess; six-over-six pane windows to rear, including round-headed stairs window. Replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation; recent fixed timber window to basement; rear elevation has some replacement aluminium windows and some six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, including round-headed stairs window; decorative timber casement to return with margins and oval motif. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor openings to front. Elliptical-headed doorway with rendered reveals, painted stone Greek Doric doorcase with triglyphs, guttae and metopes to entablature, plain fanlight and bolection-moulded twin-panel timber door with beaded muntin and replacement brass furniture. Shared sandstone-paved entrance platform with two stages of four and four granite steps flanked by cast-iron railings on granite plinth. Plainly detailed door opening beneath entrance platform. Street boundary has single granite step and decorative cast-iron railings on granite plinth, with matching pedestrian gate having decorative round-headed cast-iron piers. Two-storey mews building to rear lane.