Harcourt House — Harcourt Street

Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former house, built c. 1815, now in use as offices. M-profile pitched roof, rear span hipped to north end, hidden behind brick parapet with granite coping, rendered chimneystacks with yellow clay pots to south-end. Buff brick walls laid in Flemish bond over carved granite plinth course and rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, masonry sills and rendered reveals (patent to ground floor), cast-iron balconettes to first floor and wrought-iron guard-rails to second floor. Rendered surrounds to basement opening. Six-over-six timber sliding sash windows with horns, three-over-three to third floor. Round-headed door opening with rendered reveals, Doric columns supporting cornice and frieze with triglyphs, cast-iron cobwebbed fanlight and raised-and-fielded twelve-panelled timber door. Limestone entrance platform with cast-iron boot scrapers, having granite steps flanked by cast-iron railings with decorative corner posts on carved granite plinth, enclosing basement well to south. Street-fronted, located on west side of Harcourt Street. Linked internally with No. 19 (50920216).