house — South William Street

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1765, with arcaded ground floor. M-profile slate roof, hipped to north and set behind parapet wall with masonry coping, and having buff brick chimneystack with lipped clay pots to south party wall. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls with channel-rusticated render quoins and channel-rusticated walling below moulded impost course to ground floor, and having stucco wreaths of c. 1830 to spandrels of ground floor. Square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills, architraves and replacement timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane to middle floors. Recessed round-headed openings to ground floor, having moulded archivolts with scrolled keystones, south bay housing round-headed replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window with traceried fanlight, and north bay housing doorway with nineteenth-century timber door with six raised-and-fielded panels, Greek-key lintel cornice and decorative fanlight, both openings flanked by pilasters with scrolled console brackets and having moulded archivolts. Door opens onto granite-paved platform with decorative cast-iron boot-scrape and four granite steps bridging basement area, and spear-headed wrought and cast-iron railings, latter returning to enclose basement area and set on moulded granite plinth wall. Retains early interior detailing (Craig, 1999). Steel steps provide access to basement.