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Terraced four-bay three-storey house, extant 1895, originally two separate two-bay three-storey houses[?] with shopfront to ground floor. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with roll moulded clay or terracotta ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hopper and downpipe. Roughcast walls. Rendered shopfront to ground floor. Camber-headed window openings (upper floors) with concrete sills[?], and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A house regarded as an important component of the nineteenth-century built heritage of Swinford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such traits as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a Classically-detailed shopfront of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in Market Street at street level.