house — South William Street

Terraced two-bay four-storey former townhouse over concealed basement, built c. 1800, as one of a pair, with a traditional-style timber shopfront shared with neighbouring building No. 39 (50920078). Now in use as restaurant. Pitched slate roof set behind parapet wall with rough-hewn granite coping over. Single rendered chimneystack visible to south party wall with lipped clay pots, shared with adjoining building to south. Cast-iron rainwater goods to north of parapet with some earlier brickwork visible. Late nineteenth-century red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with cement pointing and cast-iron wall-ties between all floors (shared with adjoining building). Gauged brick square-headed window openings with granite sills and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows with ogee horns. Traditional-style replacement timber shopfront extended from the adjoining building with interconnected ground floor and full-span timber fascia with lead-lined drip cornice. Street-fronted on eastern side of South William Street, abutted by similar rendered terrace (50920078) to the south and two-storey red brick terrace to the north.