house — Ely Place Upper

Terraced three-bay three-storey townhouse with attic and basement, built c. 1770 as a terrace comprising Nos. 16-18 (50920310-2) and remodelled c. 1906. Gabled to southern two bays of principal (east) elevation, bowed northern bay to rear (west). Currently disused. Mansard slate roof with pitched and hipped roof over bowed bay to rear, with rendered chimneystacks with red brick dressings and lipped yellow clay pots to party walls. Dutch gable to southern two bays surmounted by triangular red brick dentilled pediment with painted rendered tympanum. Attic dormer to northern bay over projecting red brick cornice over cogged stringcourse. Eaves mounted uPVC gutters with downpipe to southern gable. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond over painted rendered walling to ground floor with rendered platband stringcourses. Unpainted render to southern gable and rear. Largely square-headed window openings with projecting painted masonry sills. Those to first and second floors with patent reveals and brick voussoirs; those to ground floor with bolted moulded reveals. Round-headed window opening to first floor of northern bay. Moulded rendered surround to square-headed attic dormer. uPVC casement windows throughout. Round-headed door opening to north-central bay with rendered doorcase comprising panelled pilasters rising to foliated console brackets supporting fluted frieze surmounted by fanlight over nine-panelled timber door with brass furniture opening onto granite entrance platform, ramped to street level, with cast-iron bootscraper. Basement wells to north and south enclosed by cast-iron railing on granite plinths. Street fronted onto the eastern side of Ely Place Upper.