house — Pleasants Street

Corner-sited end-of-terrace two-bay single-storey house over raised basement, built 1838, having three-bay side (west) elevation along Heytesbury Street. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to south-west, with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks having clay pots, brick parapet with cut granite coping and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick, laid in stretcher-bond to walls having cut granite plinth course over rendered wall to basement. Carved Portland stone plaque with 'Bell Villa' and carved pointing hand to front (south) elevation. Square-headed window openings having granite sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Elliptical-headed door opening with timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters and foliate console brackets supporting frieze, timber panelled door and teardrop fanlight. Granite steps with cast-iron coal hole cover to platform, flanked by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron collars. Set back from road, with basement-level front and side garden. Basement area bounded by brick plinth wall with granite coping surmounted by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron collars, having curved alignment to main entrance steps. Recent gate to basement level. Basement door beneath entrance steps.