house — Fitzwilliam Street Upper

Attached three-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1820, with bowed rear (east) elevation, three-storey return to rear and double-pile single-storey hipped roof extensions (c. 1870) to rear plot. Now in use as offices. Pitched roof to west, irregular M-profiled hipped roofs to rear (east) span with copper roof over bowed bay, concealed by brick parapet with masonry coping. Shouldered brick chimneystacks to north party wall with lipped yellow clay pots. Parapet gutters, cast-iron hopper and downpipe to south end. Brown brick walling laid in Flemish bond, ruled-and-lined and rendered walling to basement beneath granite plinth course. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, patent reveals and masonry sills; granite surrounds to basement openings. Replacement timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns; largely six-over-six, three-over-three to third floor and nine-over-six to first floor. Iron balconettes to first and second floor openings, steel grille to basement. Round-headed door flanked by panelled piers rising to moulded cornice and fret-motif to frieze with replacement petal fanlight in moulded architrave over raised-and-field timber panelled door with replacement brass furniture. Door opening framed by prostyle Doric portico comprising columns and engaged half-fluted Doric pilasters on plinth stops, supporting entablature with garland-motifs to frieze and guttae to soffit of cornice. Square-headed door opening to basement with granite surrounds and uPVC door with matching overlight. Granite-paved entrance platform approached by four granite-paved steps flanked by iron railings with decorative cast-iron corner posts on granite plinth, enclosing basement wells to south and north sides. Coal-hole cover to pavement. Street fronted on eastern side of Fitzwilliam Street Upper. Modernised (or replacement) two-storey mews building to rear (east) plot and rubble stone boundary wall on Lad Lane, with squared and coursed stone piers flanking recent vehicular timber gates and square-headed pedestrian door opening with panelled granite architrave, red brick voussoirs and replacement timber door.