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Terraced two-bay two-storey house, c.1900. One of a group of six forming part of a group of fourteen. Pitched slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack having stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on red brick eaves having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with red brick cornice incorporating saw tooth-profiled course. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with cut-granite step supporting cut-granite padstones, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door having overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A picturesque small-scale house built as one of a group of six identical units (remainder in group not included in survey) producing an appealing visual aesthetic in Friary Hill with the stepped roofline following the incline or slope of the street. Exhibiting modest aspirations indicating a possible patronage by the local authority, the architectural design value of the composition is nevertheless identified by attributes including the pleasing proportions diminishing in scale on each floor, the understated articulation limited to a pretty red brick cornice, and so on. Having been very well maintained, the house remains as the last in the group of present an early aspect with the original fabric surviving in place, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding some of the character or integrity of the collective ensemble in the streetscape.