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. Currently vacant. M-profile slate roof, hipped to rear, with rendered chimneystack having red brick dressings and lipped red clay pots to southern party wall. Roof concealed behind 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 third and ground floors with rendered platband stringcourses and red brick pier. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond to first and attic 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, those to ground floor with bolted moulded reveals. uPVC casement windows throughout. Narrow tripartite casement window to north of entrance door. Round-headed entrance door to northern bay set in doorcase comprising Doric columns on plinth stops rising to open pediment. Replacement fanlight over nine-panelled timber door with brass furniture opening on to entrance platform (shared with No. 18 (50920310) to north) with cast-iron bootscraper, shallow ramp to street level. Cast-iron railings on granite plinth enclosing basement well to south, with square-headed uPVC entrance door at basement level accessed from street level by recent lifting platform. Street fronted on east side of Ely Place Upper.