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Attached two-bay four-storey former house, built c. 1810 as middle of terrace of three (Nos. 19-21), with recent timber shopfront to ground floor, and shared gabled return to rear. Now in commercial use. Pitched natural slate roof to front, parallel to street, and flat roof to rear, behind reconstructed red brick parapet wall with painted concrete coping; shouldered brown brick chimneystack to east party wall with clay pots; and concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond brown brick walling to front with wigged pointing, having channel-banded painted rendered strip quoins to west corner; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted rendered reveals, painted masonry sills and timber sliding sash windows, one-over-one pane to first and top floors with ogee horns, and six-over-six pane to second floor with some historic glass and no horns. carparking at rear.

A Georgian former house and part of a fairly cohesive terrace on the south side of Clare Street. All within the terrace now have shops to the ground floor, with No. 20 having a recent traditional-style insertion. The group is characterized by rendered and painted strip quoins subdividing the terraced pairs, and by the high window-to-wall ratio, typical of the period. Although much of the fenestration has been replaced within the group, No. 20 retains early timber sliding windows with early glass, in addition to wigged pointing. Despite successive alterations, and loss of historic fabric, it and the group in general retains much of the early architectural character, contributing to the character of the historic streetscape of Clare Street.