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Terraced two-bay two-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1830. Pitched artificial slate roof with black clay ridge tiles behind parapet wall with granite coping. Rendered and red brick chimneystacks to both party walls with terracotta pots. Machine-made red brick walls laid in Flemish bond on painted chamfered granite plinth course over pebble-dash rendered basement walls. Gauged brick flat-arch window openings, granite sills and replacement uPVC windows. Gauged brick three-centred-arch door opening with moulded surround and replacement timber door and replacement timber doorcase. Door opens onto granite platform and two granite steps, bridging basement. Platform and basement enclosed by original wrought-iron railings and cast-iron corner posts on granite plinth wall. Cast-iron coal hole cover in granite slab to pavement.

Located within a terrace of thirteen early nineteenth-century houses, this pleasant house of modest Georgian proportions forms an integral component of the north side of Summerhill Parade. This house was possibly re-faced during the late nineteenth century and also given its current doorcase. The building retains its granite steps and the plinth and railings to its basement areas. As part of the wider terrace, the house contributes to the continuity of the overall composition presenting an appealing streetscape on what was the northeast limit of the north Georgian city.