43, Boutport Street

No. 43 Boutport Street is a house that has been altered for use as a shop and offices, with accommodation on the second floor. It dates from the 1830s and features a plastered exterior and a slate roof with gabled ends. The building has a double-depth plan that is two rooms wide and includes a fine geometrical rear stair.

The house stands three storeys tall and has a symmetrical three-bay front. It is characterized by deep eaves with a dentil cornice, pilasters on the left and right at the first and second floors, and a moulded platband at the second-floor level. The ground floor has a late 20th-century plate-glass shop front, with the left side canted into a 20th-century entrance to the upper floors.

On the first floor, there are tripartite French windows on the left and right, featuring long moulded consoles and pediments. The windows are glazed with small panes, including margin panes and narrow outer lights. The centre window is similar but does not have the outer lights and has a projecting cornice above on consoles. A decorative cast-iron balcony rests on cast-iron brackets and features alternating panels of lattice and spider's web designs. The second floor has three windows with moulded architraves, glazed with three over six-pane sashes.

Inside, there is a fine stair with stick balusters and a curved handrail, as well as a rear stair window with Edwardian stained glass. This leads to a galleried hallway on the first floor, from which the principal rooms are accessed. The original joinery includes six-panel doors, folding doors between the two left-hand first-floor rooms, and well-decorated plaster cornices and friezes. The flat on the second floor has not been seen but is said to be intact.