house — Fitzwilliam Square

Attached two-bay four-storey over basement townhouse, built c. 1825, with two-stage return to rear. Pitched slate roof, hipped to south, concealed by parapet with moulded granite cornice and coping. Shouldered yellow brick chimneystack to north party wall with lipped yellow clay pots. Parapet gutters. Red brick walling in Flemish bond over ruled-and-lined rendered walling to basement beneath granite stringcourse. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, rendered reveals and granite sills. Wrought-iron guard rails to third and second floor window openings, decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor and cast-iron grille affixed to sill of basement window opening. Largely six-over-six sliding timber sash windows with chamfered horns, three-over-three to third floor and eight-over-eight to basement. Round-headed door opening with moulded reveals and recessed surround containing plain frieze and moulded cornice carried on fluted Doric columns over plinth stops, with decorative cast-iron fanlight and raised-and-field timber panelled door with replacement brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot scraper approached by six granite steps, flanked by iron railings with decorative cast-iron corner posts on granite plinth, enclosing basement well to north. Coal-hole cover to pavement. Modernised two-storey rubble stone mews building to rear plot and successively rebuilt rubble limestone and brown brick boundary wall to west on Laverty Court, with elliptical-headed carriage-arch and segmental-headed pedestrian opening.