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Terraced two-bay four-storey house, c.1825. Refenestrated, c.1900. Renovated, c.1975, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a group of at least five. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having red brick capping, rendered coping to party wall, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls over random rubble stone construction with concealed red brick quoins to corners, and cast-iron tie plates to upper floors. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1900, retaining three-over-three timber sash windows to top floor. Replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled shopfront, c.1975, to ground floor with fixed-pane display window, tiled step or threshold leading to glazed timber double doors having overlight, and fascia. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A pleasantly composed house of the middle size built as one of group of at least five units (including 15605154) making an elegant contribution to the streetscape aesthetic in Mary Street on account of attributes including the vertical emphasis of the massing with the slightly stepped roofline following the gradient or incline in the street, the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor in the Classical manner producing a tiered visual effect, and so on. Although compromised at street level by a replacement shopfront of little inherent design value, elsewhere the house has been well maintained to present an early aspect with substantial quantities of the historic fabric surviving in place, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the positive impression made on the character of the street scene.