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, hipped to south-end, hidden behind brick parapet with granite coping, rendered chimneystacks to north party wall with yellow clay pots. 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 patent reveals, 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 to ground and third floor windows, three-over-three sash to third floor. Round-headed door opening with rendered reveals, Doric columns on plinth stops supporting dentilled cornice and frieze with triglyphs, plain glass fanlight and raised-and-fielded twelve-panelled timber door over bull-nosed limestone step. Shared granite entrance accessed via four granite steps flanked by cast-iron railings with decorative corner post on carved granite plinth, enclosing basement well to north. Street-fronted, located on west side of Harcourt Street. Linked internally with No. 18 (50920215) to north.