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Terraced three-bay two-storey over basement red brick house, built c. 1900, facing north having a gabled breakfront with attic second floor level, and shared pedimented doorcase. Two-storey return shared with neighbouring house. Pitched artificial slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Red brick chimneystack to party wall with stringcourse and concrete flaunching. Original square-profile cast-iron rainwater goods. Roof light to rear span. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond with rendered basement elevation and moulded brick course delineating ground floor level. Roughcast rendered rear elevation. Square-headed window openings, forming pairs to breakfront and single opening over front door, each pair with red brick mullion pier, profiled terracotta lintels, moulded red brick sills, and single pane timber sash windows with ogee horns. Timber casement to attic window. Square-headed window openings to rear elevation, with camber-arched paired opening at ground floor level all with uPVC windows. Shared entrance porch arrived at by flight of nosed limestone steps with flanking red brick plinth wall with decorated terracotta capping to pier. Red brick porch comprises elongated pilaster supporting dentil cornice with curvilinear and triangular pediment above. Profiled lintel above glazed timber framed porch door. Tiled porch platform with original flat-panelled timber door having horizontal centre panel and glazed upper panels. Glazed segmental-arched overlight. Concrete front site path to front door and steps to basement level. Rebuilt red brick front site boundary wall with timber screen above, and timber gate. Gated shared lane gives access to rear site.

This house, which forms part of a terrace of six uniform houses, has been well-maintained to present an original aspect with the most salient features intact. The loss of the front site boundary walls, railings and gate is regrettable. Together with the remainder of this terrace this house forms an important variation in the late Victorian, and Edwardian typologies that exist on Ennis Road and the inner suburbs of the City.