house — Fitzwilliam Street Upper

Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1820, with full-height rear return to rear (west). Now in use as offices. M-profile pitched slate roof, L-plan hipped roof to rear return, set behind parapet wall with granite coping, plastic hopper and downpipe breaking through to north. Shouldered rendered chimneystack with lipped clay pots to north. Buff brick walls laid in Flemish bond with wigged pointing. Moulded granite plinth course over tooled limestone ashlar basement wall. Cement rendered walls to rear elevation and return. Gauged brick square-headed window openings, single round-headed opening to rear return, with painted granite sills, patent reveals and timber sash windows; one-over-one to third, second and ground floors, replacement six-over-six pane to first floor and uPVC fixed-pane window to basement. Original multi-pane timber sash windows to rear elevation. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with painted masonry Doric doorcase comprising square-headed door opening flanked by half-fluted Doric columns supporting panelled lintel entablature and original decorative fanlight. Original timber door with eleven raised-and-fielded panels and brass door furniture opening onto shared granite platform and granite steps. Platform and basement enclosed by original wrought- and cast-iron railings set on granite plinth wall with steel steps providing access to basement, flush recent door beneath platform. Forming part of a continuous terrace of former townhouses lining the west side of Fitzwilliam Street Upper.