house — Fitzwilliam Street Upper

Attached two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1820, with two-storey return to rear (east). Now in use as embassy. Pitched roof to west and hipped to north end, irregular M-profiled hipped roofs to rear (east) span, concealed by refaced brick parapet with masonry coping. Brick chimneystacks to south party wall with replacement clay pots. Parapet gutters. Brown brick walling laid in Flemish bond, rebuilt on third floor, rendered walling to basement beneath granite plinth course. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, patent reveals and granite sills; granite surrounds to basement opening. Largely replacement timber sliding sash windows; one-over-one replacements to ground and first floors with ogee horns, six-over-six to second floor, three-over-three to third floor with convex horns and eight-over-eight to basement with reeded glass inserted. Wrought-iron guard rails to second floor openings, bowed cast-iron balconettes to first floor and cast-iron grille to basement. Round-headed door opening with brick voussoirs, moulded reveals and recessed surround containing fluted frieze and moulded cornice carried on Ionic columns over plinth stops, with spoked fanlight and raised-and-field timber panelled door with replacement brass furniture. Granite entrance platform, with paired cast-iron boot scrapers, approached by four granite steps flanked by iron railings with decorative cast-iron corner posts on granite plinth, enclosing basement to south-side. Coal-hole cover to pavement. Replacement steel steps to basement. Street fronted on eastern side of Fitzwilliam Street Upper. Modernised (or replacement) two-storey mews building to rear (east). Rubble stone boundary wall with granite coping to east on Lad Lane, pierced by square-headed pedestrian opening with brick surrounds and mild-steel gate, abutted by replacement segmental-headed red brick carriage with replacement gates.