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Semi-detached two-bay two-storey house, built c.1840, as one of pair forming symmetrical composition. M-profile slate roof, hipped to north end, set behind parapet wall with rendered coping and decorative bracket to central raised parapet. Replacement metal hopper and downpipe breaking through parapet to centre. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with rendered plinth course, moulded string course between floors supported on scrolled console bracket and fluted pilaster to north and rusticated soldier quoins to north end. Square-headed window openings with architrave surrounds, painted masonry sills and replacement timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows. Depressed-arch door opening with inset door having replacement timber panelled door flanked by fluted pilasters and impost mouldings with moulded surround to inset plain glazed fanlight. Door opens onto concrete platform and two granite steps. Cobblelock front area enclosed by replacement steel railings on granite plinth wall.

This pair of houses forms a symmetrical composition with a decorative shared parapet and string course. The low, undersized doorway of each house adds visual interest to the facade. Recently restored, the houses have had most original fabric sensitively replaced, and the painting scheme and the foreground, with railings and stone plinth, all contributes handsomely to the streetscape.