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Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house of hearth-lobby plan form, built c.1850, with entrance porch addition of c.1970. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with concrete barge copings, two rendered chimneystacks flanking central bays, and aluminium rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined smooth rendered walls with smooth-rendered plinth and eaves, rendered block-and-start quoins. Two-over-two timber sash windows with raised rendered surrounds having keystone details, all with stone sills. Set at angle to road with forged metal pedestrian gate and recent blockwork boundary wall.

A good example of a vernacular dwelling with a corrugated-iron roof, which typically replaced thatch. Despite the loss of the thatched roof the house retains its original form and historic windows. Formerly a building type that was once found throughout the countryside, vernacular houses such as this one are sadly increasingly rare.