house — Harcourt Street

Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built 1862, now in use as school. M-profile pitched roof, concealed behind cogged red brick parapet with projecting brick eaves course on brick brackets and granite coping. Rendered chimneystacks with yellow clay pots to south party wall, parapet gutters and cast-iron rainwater goods to north-end. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with granite plinth course over snecked ashlar limestone walls to basement. Square-headed window openings, segmental-headed openings to third floor and basement; brick voussoirs, brick reveals and projecting granite sills; block-and-start brick surrounds to basement. Six-over-six sliding timber sashes, three-over-three to third floor, eight-over-four to basement having cast-iron guard affixed. Round-headed Romanesque-Revival door opening with brick voussoirs, engaged chevron ornamented colonnettes with foliate capitals, nail-headed archivolt and masked figurative keystone, stepped reveals with toothed and rope mouldings having foliate keystone. Ornate carved-timber pilasters supporting carved-timber fascia with ivy-leaf ornament and cornice, plain glass fanlight and timber panelled door with central beaded moulding. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot scraper and nosed granite steps, flanked by cast-iron railings on carved granite plinth, enclosing basement area to south. Cast-iron coal hole cover to pavement to front. Street-fronted, located on east side of Harcourt Street.