house — Pleasants Street

Terraced two-bay single-storey house over raised basement, built c. 1855, as one of terrace of four. M-profile pitched slate roof, rendered chimneystack with clay pots, rendered parapet and cornice. Yellow brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls, having render quoins, cut granite plinth course over rendered wall to basement. Square-headed window openings with granite sills, rendered reveals, replacement window at ground level and original six-over-three pane timber sliding sash window to basement-level. Elliptical-headed door opening having moulded render surround, and timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters and foliate console brackets supporting stepped cornice. Replacement door, roundel and petal fanlight. Shared granite steps with bootscrape to platform and cast-iron coal-hole cover to wide eighth step. Basement area bounded by granite plinth wall surmounted by wrought-iron railings having decorative cast-iron collars and finials. Curved alignment to main entrance steps. Matching gate, plinth wall underneath truncated. Square-headed door to basement, beneath entrance steps. Set back from road, with basement-level front garden.