house — Ely Place Upper

Terraced two-bay three-storey townhouse with attic and basement, built c. 1770, as part of a terrace comprising Nos. 16-18 (50920310-2) and remodelled in 1906. Pitched slate roof having two rendered chimneystacks with red brick dressings and lipped red clay pots to northern party wall. Roof concealed behind gable comprising red brick dentilled pediment with rendered tympanum flanked by U-shaped parapets with red brick coping, flanked by granite coping stones. Concealed gutters with flanking cast-iron hoppers and down pipes breaking through. Rendered walling to attic and ground floor with render platband courses and red brick pier with block-and-start detailing to return gable to north at attic level. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond to first and second floors, surmounted by projecting red brick cornice over cogged stringcourse. Square-headed window openings with projecting masonry sills. Those to first and second floors with patent reveals and brick voussoirs. uPVC casement windows throughout. Decorative bowed cast-iron balconettes affixed to outer reveals of first floor. Narrow tripartite casement window to north of entrance door. Round-headed entrance door to southern bay set in doorcase comprising Ionic columns on plinth stops rising to open pediment. Replacement fanlight over timber door opening to entrance platform (shared with No. 17 (50920311) to south). Street fronted on east side of Ely Place Upper.