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Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1850, on a corner site retaining early fenestration with segmental-headed door opening to centre. Reroofed and extended, c.1970, comprising single-bay two-storey lean-to return to rear to south-west. Now in use as offices. One of a pair. Hipped roof (shared) (lean-to to return). Replacement artificial slate, c.1970. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack. Timber eaves. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Yellow brick English Garden Wall bond walls to front (north-east) elevation (washed red) with lime mortar. Rendered walls to remainder. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Red brick dressings. 1/1 timber sash windows. Shallow segmental-headed door opening to centre. Red brick dressings. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1970. Overlight. Road fronted on a corner site. Concrete footpath to front.

This house, built as one of a pair with the house to north-west, has been well-maintained to present an early aspect. The house is of social and historic interest, representing the middle-size houses of the professional class in the mid nineteenth-century. Built on a symmetrical plan of graceful proportions, the front (north-east) elevation was originally fronted with yellow brick having red brick dressings to the openings – since washed to produce a uniform red brick appearance, the house has lost its attractive polychromatic appearance. The house retains many original or early features and materials, including timber sash fenestration. Fronting on to the road, the house, together with its neighbour (11814090/KD-19-14-90), is a prominent feature on the streetscape and forms an attractive corner leading on to John’s Lane to the south-west.