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, having three-storey flat-roofed return to north end of rear. Now in use as apartments. M-profile roof, hipped to north end, having brick parapet with moulded granite coping. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to south party wall with clay pots. Concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond buff brick walling, with painted ruled-and-lined rendered walling to front basement with painted masonry plinth course over; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings with painted rendered reveals and painted granite sills; rendered surround to basement opening set in segmental-headed recess. Timber sliding sash windows, replacement eight-over-eight to basement with angled horns, and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Apparently six-over-six pane timber sash windows to rear. Elliptical-headed doorway with rendered reveals, painted stone Greek Doric doorcase with triglyphs, guttae and metopes to entablature, decorative leaded fanlight and bolection-moulded twin-panel timber door with replacement chrome 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 doorway beneath entrance platform. Street boundary has single granite step and decorative cast-iron railings on granite plinth with matching pedestrian gates on decorative round-headed cast-iron piers. Yard and refaced or rebuilt two-storey mews building to lane. Located on west side of Herbert Place, overlooking Grand Canal, and forming part of cohesive row (Nos. 4-25).