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house — Harcourt Street

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Terraced three-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1820, with full-height bowed-bay to rear (west) elevation. Now in use as college. M-profile roof, hidden behind refaced brick parapet with granite coping, parapet gutters, shouldered rendered chimneystacks with replacement yellow clay pots to north and brick chimneystack to south with lipped yellow clay pots. Brown brick walls laid in Flemish bond with plinth course over rendered basement walls. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, masonry sills and raised rendered reveals, with replacement timber casement windows, vertically aligned three-pane with two-panes to upper floors. Segmental-headed door opening with brick voussoirs, rendered reveals, engaged Ionic columns and respond pilasters framing leaded sidelights, supporting fluted frieze and cornice having petal fanlight over eight-panelled timber door with beaded-muntin. Granite platform and granite steps flanked by mild steel railings on carved granite plinth, continuing to north to enclose basement area. Street-fronted on west side of Harcourt Street.

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