Number 4 With Entrance To Black Lion Yard

Number 4 with the entrance to Black Lion Yard is a late 18th-century house of three storeys, an attic, and a cellar. It is constructed of red brick on a projecting stuccoed plinth, with a parapet featuring stone coping and an old tile Mansard roof. A shallow, two-storey stuccoed bay is present, topped with a lead flat roof, and there is one dormer window in the attic, featuring a small moulded cornice. The front facade incorporates a three-pane sash window and single-pane windows to the sides, all with ogee arches and moulded architraves, embellished with finials; the centre windows’ finials are decorated with Prince of Wales feathers, and the glazing of the centre windows is pointed. A small wrought iron lattice balcony with cast lead rosettes is positioned below the first-floor windows.

The main entrance is a six-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight displaying a semi-circular and radiating glazing pattern, recessed within a panelled reveal. The doorcase features fluted pilasters with moulded bases, baluster-shaped curved necking, and moulded caps, supporting an entablature that projects forward over the pilasters. The frieze is decorated with alternating roundels and small groups of fluting in its upper half, with masks appearing within the roundels above the pilasters. A moulded and dentilated cornice and pediment complete the doorcase. The door is approached by three moulded stone steps, flanked by small contemporary wrought-iron scroll scrapers. Cellar windows are fitted with plain wrought-iron grilles.

The large rectangular opening providing access to Black Lion Yard, which is the height of the ground floor, forms part of Number 4, but the first two floors and the attic above are of a different design.