house — Fitzwilliam Square

Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c.1825, with two-stage return over basement to rear (south). Now in use as offices. M-profiled slate roof, hipped to east of rear span, concealed by ashlar granite parapet with moulded cornice and coping, parapet gutters, shouldered brick chimneystacks to east and west party walls, rendered to west with masonry coping, with red and yellow clay pots. Red brick walling in Flemish bond over rusticated ashlar granite walling to ground floor, roughly coursed and squared limestone walls to basement beneath granite stringcourse to lintel level. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs and projecting painted masonry sills, continuous granite sill course to first floor, granite surrounds to basement. Cast- and wrought-iron balconettes to first floor windows and metal grille affixed to basement reveals. Largely six-over-six sliding timber sash windows, three-over-three to third floor and eight-over-eight to basement. Elliptical-headed door opening to principal elevation (north) with moulded reveals and Greek Doric doorcase with distyle fluted Doric columns supporting plain frieze and cornice surmounted by cobwebbed fanlight over eight-panelled timber door with beaded muntin. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot scraper, approached by five bull-nosed granite steps, flanked by cast-iron railings with decorative corner posts over granite plinth, enclosing basement well to west. Steel steps to basement level. Coal-hole cover to pavement. Cement rendered blockwork wall with square opening to south boundary on Fitzwilliam Court. Modernised mews building to rear, with mansard-style roof, concealed behind rubble limestone wall with granite coping to south boundary on Fitzwilliam Court, containing elliptical-headed carriage-arch with recent timber gates.