house — Aungier Street

Terraced four-bay four-storey former house, built c. 1665, with gabled rear elevation. East and west walls rebuilt in late-nineteenth century. Refaced c. 1940, with timber shopfronts inserted to ground floor. Now in use as office. Pitched natural slate roof, parallel to street with M-profile gable-ended natural slate roof to rear pile (total of five pitches), black clay ridge tiles throughout, slender buff brick chimneystack with lime pointing and octagonal clay pots to north party wall at centre of plan and large profiled buff brick chimneystack to south party wall at centre of plan. Roof set behind parapet brick wall having concrete coping, with lead hopper and cast-iron downpipe breaking, cast-iron hoppers and downpipes to rear elevation. Buff brick walls laid in Flemish bond, English garden wall bond and lime pointing to gabled rear (east) elevation. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with feathered reveals and granite sills to first floor, brick reveals and concrete sills to second and third floors. Replacement multiple-pane timber sliding sash windows throughout; six-over-six pane to first and second floor, three-over-three pane to third floor. Central square-headed door opening providing access to upper floors, flanked by pair of timber pilasters and console brackets to cornice, with overlight and flat-panelled timber door having cast-iron door furniture. Replacement timber shopfronts. Street-fronted on east side of Aungier Street