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house — Harcourt Street

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Terraced three-bay three-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1830. carriage-arch to south-end infilled with shop unit. Now in use as offices and restaurant. L-plan hipped slate roof hidden behind brick parapet with granite coping, red brick chimneystack to north end with replacement clay pots and parapet gutters. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond over granite plinth course and rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, granite sills, and rendered reveals. Replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with horns. Central round-headed door opening with brick voussoirs, rendered reveals having Scamozzi Ionic columns supporting panelled frieze and cornice with replacement fanlight over timber-panelled door. Infilled elliptical-headed former carriage-arch to south-bay with chamfered ashlar granite surrounds and keystone, with recent glass shopfront and signage. Central granite entrance platform and nosed granite steps with cast-iron boot scraper, flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on masonry plinth, mild-steel replacement railings over masonry plinth enclose basement area to north. Street-fronted on east side of Harcourt Street.

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