Mount Charles Mount Charles House

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SW8244NW INFIRMARY HILL 880-1/6/322 (East side) Nos.1, 2 AND 3 Mount Charles House

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Also known as: LEMON STREET, Nos.1, 2 and 3 Mount Charles House, now 3 houses. 1785 date on building. Textured incised stucco on rubble to front; old slatehanging to Nos 2 & 3 at rear, new slatehanging to rear of No.3; scantle slate to rear of No.1, dry slate to front of No.2, otherwise asbestos slate; brick end stack on the left (No.1) and 2 brick axial stacks; cast-iron ogee gutters to front of Nos 1 & 2. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; 2:3:2-window range; No.2 with shouldered and round-arched fanlight head and margin panes. No.3 has C20 windows including copy of original canted oriel of best chamber to right-hand end. No.2 has central mid C19 glazed porch with margin panes, panels and original Lion's head door knocker. INTERIOR: original features include: open-well open-string staircase with rare scrolled wrought-iron balusters and ramped mahogany handrail; enriched modillion plaster ceiling cornice above stairs and similar cornice to best chamber (in No.3). Early C19 features such as door architraves with corner blocks and roundels, panelled doors and some plaster ceiling cornices where inspected.

Listing NGR: SW8242044557