The Harcourt Hotel — Harcourt Street

Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former house, built 1862, with two-stage flat-roofed return to rear (east) and mansard attic storey added. Now in use as hotel. Mansard roof with rooflights, concealed behind cogged red brick parapet having projecting brick eaves course on brick brackets with granite coping over. Rendered chimneystacks with yellow clay pots to south party wall, concealed rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with granite plinth course over snecked ashlar limestone walls to basement. Largely square-headed window openings, segmental-headed openings to third floor and basement; with brick voussoirs, brick reveals and projecting granite sills; block-and-start brick surrounds to basement. One-over-one sliding timber sashes with ogee horns, two-over-two to second and 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, leaded cobwebbed fanlight and timber panelled door. Square-headed opening to underside of entrance platform having brick voussoirs and surrounds, door blocked. Shared granite entrance platform to principal entrance (west) with cast-iron boot scraper and nosed granite steps, flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on carved granite plinth, enclosing basement area to south. Street-fronted, located on east side of Harcourt Street.