house — Fitzwilliam Street Upper

End-of-terrace two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1830, with three-stage return to rear (east). Now in use as offices. M-profiled roof, hipped to north of rear (east) span, concealed by brick parapet with granite coping. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to south party wall with lipped yellow clay pots. Parapet gutters with cast-iron downpipe to south end. 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 one-over-one timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns, nineteenth-century eight-over-eight to basement having chamfered horns. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first and second floor openings, steel grille to basement. Round-headed door opening with moulded reveals and recessed surround containing panelled frieze with garlands and moulded cornice carried on half-fluted Doric columns over plinth stops, with plain fanlight and raised-and-field timber panelled door with beaded-muntin and having brass furniture. Shared granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot scraper, approached by two granite steps, flanked by iron railings to south with decorative arrow-headed finials on granite plinth, enclosing basement well. Coal-hole cover to pavement. Concrete steps to basement. Street fronted on eastern side of Fitzwilliam Street Upper. Modernised and extended two-storey mews building to rear (east) plot. Segmental-headed carriage-arch to Lad Lane having brick voussoirs, coursed and squared limestone piers and raked rendered coping, abutted by limestone rubble wall to north, having square-headed pedestrian opening (blocked) with red brick voussoirs.