house — Fitzwilliam Street Upper

Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1830, with two-stage return to rear (east). Now in use as offices. M-profiled roof concealed by brick parapet with granite coping. Shouldered brick chimneystacks to south party wall with lipped yellow clay pots. Parapet gutters. Brown brick walling laid in Flemish bond, rusticated ashlar granite walling to ground floor with granite plinth course over tooled ashlar limestone walling to basement. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, patent reveals and masonry sills; granite surrounds to basement opening and rusticated granite to ground floor. Largely replacement six-over-six timber sliding sash windows with convex horns, three-over-three to third floor and eight-over-eight to basement. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to second and third floor openings, steel grille to basement. Round-headed door opening with moulded reveals and recessed surround containing panelled frieze and moulded cornice carried on half-fluted Doric columns over plinth stops, with plain fanlight and raised-and-field timber panelled door having beaded-muntin and replacement brass furniture. Shared granite entrance platform, with cast-iron boot scrapers, approached by four nosed granite steps, flanked by iron railings to south with decorative arrow-headed finials on granite plinth, enclosing basement well. Coal-hole cover to pavement. Street fronted on the eastern side of Fitzwilliam Street Upper.