house — Harcourt Street

Terraced three-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1795, with front railed basement area and three-storey return. Now in use as offices. Double-pile slate roof with M-profile rear pile set perpendicular to street and shouldered rendered brick chimneystacks with lipped clay pots to south party wall (shared with No. 10). Roof hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to south end. Buff brick walls laid in Flemish bond with lime wigging, rendered to basement below moulded granite plinth course. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with feathered reveals, granite sills and early twentieth-century single-pane or two-over-two timber sash windows. Decorative timber secondary glazing to first floor with geometric glazing bars. Six-over-six timber sash windows without horns and iron grilles to basement. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with tripartite masonry Ionic doorcase comprising replacement timber panelled door flanked by engaged Ionic columns, sidelights with lead tracery and Ionic pilasters, all supporting stepped and fluted lintel cornice with decorative leaded fanlight. Door opening on to granite platform and two granite steps bridging basement enclosed by wrought- and cast-iron railings set on moulded granite plinth returning to enclose basement area. Masonry steps and iron balustrade provide access to basement.