house — Fitzwilliam Square

Attached two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1820, with two-storey return to rear. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof, with V-profiled roof to rear (east) span which is hipped to east, concealed by refaced brick parapet with granite coping. Rendered chimneystacks to party walls with lipped clay pots, yellow to south and red to north. Parapet gutters. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond over coursed ashlar granite walling to basement beneath granite plinth course. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, patent reveals and granite sills. Iron guard rails to second floor, continuous decorative iron balconette to first floor and cast-iron grille affixed to basement sill. Largely six-over-six sliding timber sash windows, three-over-three to third floor with convex horns, ogee horns to ground floor and eight-over-eight to basement with granite surrounds. Round-headed door opening to principal elevation with brick voussoirs and decorative petal fanlight over square-headed door opening with panelled engaged pilasters flanking prostyle portico with moulded cornice and panelled frieze carried on engaged pilasters and Doric columns on plinth stops, framing raised-and-field timber door with beaded-muntin. Granite entrance platform approached by six bull-nosed granite steps, flanked by iron railings over granite plinth, enclosing basement to south. Masonry steps and iron handrail to basement level. Coal-hole cover to pavement. Two-storey modernised mews building to rear plot. Eastern boundary on Lad Lane bound by square-headed vehicular opening with rendered moulded head flanked by ashlar granite piers affixed with steel-roller shutter. Roughly squared and coursed limestone wall with granite coping abuts to north, having square-headed door opening with granite lintel over recent timber door.