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Terraced single-bay three-storey house, c.1815. Renovated, c.1865, with pubfront inserted to ground floor, and rendered façade enrichments added. Reroofed, c.1965. Extensively renovated, pre-1999, with replacement pubfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1965, clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement concrete sills, pre-1999, moulded rendered shouldered surrounds, c.1865, having segmental ‘keystones’, and replacement timber casement windows, pre-1999. Replacement timber pubfront, pre-1999, to ground floor incorporating fabric of earlier pubfront, c.1865, with fluted pilasters, fixed-pane (three-light) timber display window having pointed-arch panes, timber panelled door, overlight, fascia over having consoles, and cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

A well-proportioned house, built as an integral component of an early nineteenth-century urban planning project initiated by the Duke of Devonshire centred on Grattan (originally Market) Square. However, extensive renovations works in the late twentieth century have led to the loss of most of the original fabric and historic patina. Nevertheless, the elementary form and massing remains intact, contributing to the regular streetline and roofline of the south-east range of the square.