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Terraced two-bay four-storey house, c.1850. Extensively renovated, c.1950, with door opening remodelled to accommodate use as offices. One of a terrace of four. Hipped (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves. Unpainted replacement rendered walls, c.1950. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1950. Square-headed door opening (originally elliptical-headed) remodelled, c.1950, with replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1950. Set back from line of road with forecourt having wrought iron railings on cut-limestone plinth with wrought iron gate.

This house, built as one of a terrace of four identical houses, is an attractive and well-proportioned substantial composition. Comprehensively renovated in the mid to late twentieth century, the house is now without much of its original fabric although, with the exception of the door opening, the original form remains intact. The house, together with the remainder of the terrace (22504386 – 8/WD-5632-22-400 – 398), forms an important component of the streetscape, set back slightly from the line of the road, and the survival of the original iron railings contributes to the historic character of the group.