Georgian House

TOWN OF DONCASTER HALLGATE SE 5703 SE (south side)

7/30 No 39, (Georgian House)

12.6.50

GV II

House, now shops and offices. Mid C18 with early C19 alterations and minor later alterations. Stucco with painted stone dressings and tarred slate roof. Five bays and three storeys, two room central entrance hall plan. Tall ground floor with horizontal banded rustication and deep plinth. Four narrowing steps up to central door, with plain wreathed railing to either side. C20 glazed door below 6-pane overlight beneath Tuscan porch with plain frieze to the entablature and wide moulded cornice. To either side there are large recessed C20 small pane, tripartite bow windows on bowed plinths. Wide plain first-floor sill band and five full-height first-floor 18-pane sashes, with full-width bracketed iron balcony. This has Greek key frieze to base, scrolled frieze to top and honeysuckle and interlace panels between, it is stepped forward to centre over the porch. Above again five small 6-pane sashes with projecting sills. Dentilled cornice and blocking course, stone coped gables on moulded stone kneelers with original hopper heads below, and large brick end stacks. Interior has narrow central hall with bracketed and egg and dart cornice, moulded round arch through to rear staircase hall with fine open well open-string staircase through 3 floors; 2, square knopped, column on vase balusters per tread, moulded ramped and wreathed handrail and profiled cheekpieces. Round- arched staircase window to landing and bracketed, egg and dart cornice to top landing. Ground and first-floor rooms with dentilled and egg and dart cornices.

Listing NGR: SE5783203173