house — Harcourt Terrace

Attached five-bay three-storey former house over basement, built 1830, having attic storey, three-bay shallow projecting breakfront and four-bay single-storey ranges to side (north and south) elevations. Now in use as offices. M-profile hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, concealed by stepped parapet having central three-bay dormer over breakfront, flanked by balustraded parapets, with granite coping, brown brick chimneystacks having clay pots. Hipped slate roof to side ranges, concealed by parapet with laurel wreath panels. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to front, rendered walls to basement and side ranges. Brown brick, laid in stretcher bond to walls to side elevations. Dentillated moulded render stringcourse, segmental-headed central niche and render pilasters to second floor. Tetrastyle Ionic portico to ground and first floors, having fluted columns, supporting entablature with alternating anthemion and foliate motifs to frieze and dentillated cornice, Greek key motif to soffit. Tuscan pilasters to quoins. Round-headed niches having moulded architraves and masonry sills to ground and first floors. Circular niche with foliate moulding and bust to parapet. Square-headed window openings with moulded render surrounds, those to ground floor and basement having granite sills, granite sill band to first-floor windows. Three-over-three pane and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Fluted Doric columns supporting frieze having triglyphs and metopes, with casts of fighting lapiths and centaurs, and moulded cornice, to front of side ranges. Recessed entrance to front. Square-headed door openings having render doorcase comprising panelled pilasters with scrolled consoles supporting stepped cornices, timber panelled door. Square-headed door openings to basement. Wrought-iron gates and matching railings set on granite plinth wall fronting site