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End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, c.1890, retaining original fenestration. Renovated, c.1965. One of a terrace of three. Hipped gabled slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and replacement aluminium rainwater goods, c.1965, on timber eaves. Painted rendered walls over random rubble stone construction with rendered quoins. Square-headed window openings (some in bipartite arrangement) with stone sills, and one with moulded architrave. 1/1 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening in open timber porch, c.1965, with replacement glazed diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled door, c.1965. Set back from line of road on elevated site in own grounds with flagged and grass forecourt having hedge boundary.

Although of modest appearance, this house is composed of balanced proportions, and is distinguished by features of architectural invention including bipartite window openings. The house is one of a planned group of three units that form part of a terrace following the incline of a hill. Well-maintained, the house retains most of its original form and massing, with important salient features and materials enhancing the historic quality of the site. The house, together with the remainder of the houses in the terrace (including 22817002 - 3/WD-27-17-02 - 03), is prominently positioned on an elevated site overlooking Dunmore Strand, and forms an imposing feature of the townscape.