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Terraced three-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, c.1750, with three-bay three-storey canted bowed bay to rear (south) elevation. Extensively renovated, 1998, with dormer attic added to accommodate use as apartments. Pitched roof (gabled to dormer attic windows) with replacement artificial slate, 1998, clay ridge tiles, replacement square rooflights, 1998, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, 1998, on replacement overhanging uPVC eaves, 1998. Painted replacement rendered walls, 1998, with rendered quoined piers, and moulded rendered course to first floor. Square-headed window openings with moulded rendered sills (forming sill course to first floor), and moulded rendered surrounds having pediments to first floor. Replacement 1/1 timber sash windows, 1998. Square-headed door opening with three cut-limestone steps, rendered pilaster doorcase with triglyph frieze, moulded entablature, blocking course over, and replacement glazed timber panelled door, 1998. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A fine, substantial house of Georgian proportions and symmetrical design, which has been comprehensively renovated leading to the loss of most of the original fabric. Some features have been installed with reference to the original models, yet the overall appearance of the composition is undermined by the inappropriate reconstruction of the roof. Nevertheless, the house remains of importance for its age and for its contribution to the group of mid eighteenth-century houses, which form an integral component of the streetscape of Lady Lane.