house — Fitzwilliam Place

Attached two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1840, as a pair with No. 22 (50930150). Three-storey over basement flat-roofed return to rear (east) elevation. Now in use as office. M-profiled roof, concealed by parapet with ashlar granite eaves having moulded granite cornice and blocking course. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to party walls with lipped replacement clay pots. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond, rusticated ashlar granite walling to ground floor, ruled-and-lined rendered walls to basement beneath granite stringcourse. Smooth rendered walling to rear (east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, patent reveals and masonry sills; granite surrounds to basement. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor openings, cast-iron guard rails to second floor. Largely one-over-one replacement timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns (diminishing in height) and possibly original ten-over-ten to basement without horns and having cast-iron grille affixed to sill. Round-headed door opening with moulded rendered reveals and recessed surround with Greek-Doric portico having plain frieze and moulded cornice supported on fluted Doric columns, with petal fanlight and timber panelled door having beaded-muntin. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot scraper, approached by four bull-nosed granite steps and flanked by cast-iron railings with decorative arrow finials over granite plinth, enclosing basement well to south. Replacement mild-steel steps to basement with plainly detailed replacement door beneath entrance platform. Coal-hole cover to pavement. Replacement mews building to rear plot, concealed by replacement brick boundary wall on Lad Lane Upper.