house — Fitzwilliam Square

Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement townhouse, built c. 1810, with two-storey return to rear (west). Now in use as house and apartment. Pitched roof to east with irregular M-profile hipped roof to rear (west), concealed by brick parapet with granite coping. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to party walls with lipped yellow clay pots. Parapet gutters with replacement cast-iron downpipe and hopper to south end. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond with wigged pointing, over ruled-and-lined rendered walling to basement beneath granite plinth course. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, rendered reveals and masonry sills. Largely six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three to third floor and eight-over-eight to basement. Wrought-iron guard rails to second floor window openings and decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Round-headed door opening with brick voussoirs, moulded reveals and sandstone doorcase comprising; fluted frieze and moulded cornice carried on Ionic columns over plinth stops, decorative fanlight and raised-and-field timber panelled door with brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot scrapers, approached by five granite steps flanked by iron railings with decorative cast-iron corner posts over granite plinth, enclosing basement to south-side. Iron bell pulls set in railings. Coal-hole cover to pavement. Street fronted on Fitzwilliam Square West. Replacement two-storey mews building to west on Laverty Court with a pair of segmental-headed carriage-arches.