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Terraced two-bay single-storey yellow brick house, c.1900, with shallow segmental-headed door opening to left. Refenestrated, c.1990. One of a terrace of five. Gable-ended roof (shared) with slate. Decorative clay crested ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stacks with yellow brick dressings. Cast-iron rainwater goods on profiled yellow brick eaves course. Yellow brick Flemish bond walls. Yellow brick dressings including stringcourse to openings and profiled course to eaves. Square-headed window opening. Stone sill. Red brick block-and-start surrounds. Replacement uPVC casement window, c.1990. Shallow segmental-headed door opening. Red brick block-and-start surround. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1990. Set back from line of road.

This house, built as one of a terrace of five, is an attractive, small-scale range that retains most of its original form and character – the house is distinguished in the terrace by being one bay smaller than the remaining houses in the row, suggesting that it was built as an infill unit. The house, together with the remainder of the terrace, is of social and historical significance, representing the continued development of the historic core of Newbridge with professionally-designed houses of sophisticated architectural forms. The construction in yellow brick with red and yellow brick dressings attests to improvements made in the manufacturing industry in the nineteenth century facilitating the mass-production of economic building materials, and produces an attractive polychromatic effect that was fashionable in the late Victorian period. Replacement fittings to the openings have not had a positive impact on the form of the house, and the re-instatement of traditional-style fenestration might restore a more accurate representation of the original integrity of the design. The house, together with the remainder in the terrace (11818047, 78 - 80/KD-27-18-47, 78 - 80), forms a picturesque feature on the streetscape of Henry Street.