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Glenbrook

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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, having bay windows to ground floor. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves having timber brackets. Roughcast rendered walls with render plinth course. Square-headed openings to first floor having concrete sills, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and timber shutters. Square-headed openings to bay windows with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and flanking four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed opening having spoked fanlight over double-leaf timber panelled doors. Brick steps to entrance. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to south-west with double-leaf cast-iron gates and rendered walls having cast-iron railings.
An attractive, well proportioned house, which is identified by distinctive features such as the overhanging eaves which enhance the architectural value of the composition. Well maintained, the house presents an early aspect with much of the original form intact, together with a number of important salient features and materials.

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