house — Fitzwilliam Street Upper

Attached two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1820, with three-stage return to rear (east). Now in use as offices. M-profiled roof to rear, concealed by brick parapet with masonry coping. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to party walls with lipped yellow clay pots and brick upper section to north-west chimney. Parapet gutters with cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to centre. Brown brick walling laid in Flemish bond over rendered walling to basement beneath granite plinth course. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, rendered reveals and masonry sills, granite surrounds to basement. Largely six-over-six possibly original timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three to third floor and eight-over-eight to basement, replacement one-over-one to ground floor with cavetto horns. Iron balconettes to second, first and ground floor, cast-iron grille to basement opening. Round-headed door opening with brick voussoirs, moulded reveals and recessed surround containing panelled frieze and moulded cornice carried on Scamozzian-Ionic columns over plinth stops, spoked fanlight and raised-and-field timber panelled door with replacement brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot scrapers, approached by three 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. Concrete steps to basement well. Street fronted on eastern side of Fitzwilliam Street Upper. Modernised two-storey mews building to rear (east) with rendered walls and pitched slate roof. Rendered boundary wall lining Lad Lane with round-headed carriage-arch and separate pedestrian door opening both having metal-sheeted gates with decorative iron mouldings.