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Alexander Court — Pembroke Street Upper

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Alexander Court — Pembroke Street Upper
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Attached four-bay five-storey apartment block over partially concealed basement, built c. 1940. Flat roof, with single-storey plant block to centre, concealed by brick parapet with concrete coping. Rendered chimneystack to east party wall with yellow clay pots. Parapet gutters. Textured brown brick walling laid in English garden wall bond, with intermittent bow-faced bricks, over tooled ashlar concrete cladding to ground floor beneath cast-concrete stringcourse. Smooth rendered walling to rear (north) elevation. Square-headed window openings with brick soldier course to heads and cast-concrete sills; concrete surrounds to ground and basement openings. Multi-paned uPVC casement windows, with steel grille affixed to basement. Square-headed door opening with stepped reveals and framed by projecting concrete-clad surround with voussoirs and keyed-headed rising to projecting stringcourse over ground floor. Double-leaf timber panelled door with brass handles and four-paned overlight. Secondary square-headed door opening to western bay with plain surrounds and timber sheeted door with perforated upper panel. Concrete entrance platform flanked by dwarf concrete-clad walls with raked concrete coping, enclosing small yards to east and west, accessed via original metal gates.

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