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Attached three-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1825, rebuilt 1911, as a pair with adjoining No. 3 (50930131). Bowed bay to south side of rear (east) elevation and three-storey over basement return to north side. Now in use as embassy. M-profiled slate roof, hipped to north of west span, concealed by parapet with moulded cornice and granite blocking course. Pair of shouldered brick chimneystacks with lipped yellow clay pots to south party wall. Parapet gutters, cast-iron downpipes with hoppers flanking principal (west) elevation, recessed to south side. Ashlar granite walling, rusticated to ground floor, with tooled ashlar limestone to basement with granite plinth course. Red brick walling to rear (east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with moulded granite surrounds and sills; shouldered to third floor, lugged to first floor and having lugged heads and shouldered sills to second floor. Granite voussoirs to ground floor openings and granite surrounds to basement. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor, cast-iron grilles affixed to basement reveals and iron guard rails to second floor. Windows largely one-over-one timber sliding sashes without horns, six-over-six to second floor and basement, and three-over-three to third floor, all without horns. Some Wyatt-style windows to rear (east) elevation. Central round-headed door opening having engaged granite pilasters and moulded archivolt with plain fanlight and replacement timber-panelled door. Opening framed by prostyle Ionic portico carried on columns and engaged pilasters supporting panelled frieze with moulded cornice. Granite entrance platform with decorative cast-iron boot scrapers, approached by six bull-nosed granite steps flanked by decorative cast-iron railings, enclosing basement wells. Coal-hole cover to pavement. Modernised two-storey mews building to the rear (may be modern rebuild). Rear plot to east on Lad Lane bound by random ashlar limestone wall, cut stone coping, pierced by square-headed window and door openings (boarded up), and having elliptical-headed carriage-arch to south with brick voussoirs and flanked by ashlar limestone piers with metal-sheeted gates.
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