house — South William Street

Terraced two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1765 as pair with No. 22. Three-pile pitched roof, hipped to south, with glazed lantern to central pile, rendered chimneystacks with copings and lipped yellow clay pots to north party wall, concealed behind parapet with granite coping, and with concealed gutters with cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to north. Ruled-and-lined rendered walling, with painted granite plinth course over smooth rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings, diminishing to upper floors, with painted granite sills, plain reveals and ruled voussoirs. Windows are timber sliding sash, with convex horns to top floor, lacking horns elsewhere, replacement six-over-three pane frames to basement, three-over-three pane to top floor, six-over-six pane elsewhere. Tripartite windows of c. 1820 noted to rear (Craig,1999). Round-headed doorcase of c. 1820, with moulded surround, engaged Doric columns on plinth stops, fluted frieze with rosette motifs, replacement cobweb fanlight, and timber panelled door with painted granite step. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and five nosed steps to street, flanked by cast-iron railings with decorative corner posts on moulded granite plinth, enclosing basement area to north. Square-headed recent timber door located beneath entrance platform accessed via steel steps from street level.