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End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey house, built c.1880, with single-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with polychromatic chimneystack with stepped cornice and polygonal terracotta pots, cast-iron rainwater goods, and yellow brick cogging eaves course. Red brick walling to front elevation, laid in Flemish bond, with ashlar sandstone block-and-start quoins and chamfered sandstone plinth. Yellow brick block-and-start surrounds to openings. Smooth rendered walls to rear elevations. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, and sandstone sills. Round-arched door opening with timber panelled door having spoked timber fanlight, and sandstone threshold. Set back from street with garden to front with boundary demarcation comprising saddle-back stone plinth surmounted by railings of cast and wrought iron. Terrace of two-storey outbuildings to rear having pitched natural slate roof, smooth rendered random rubble walls, and square-headed openings. House constitutes one of a terrace of four largely identical houses.

This fine urban row house is part of an impressive terrace of red brick dwellings that constitutes a very good example of the type of housing built beyond the immediate centre of Victorian towns around the turn of the nineteenth century. The use of polychromatic brickwork adds a degree of contrast and artistic embellishment to a building built for practicality and to alleviate the overcrowding of town centres during this period. The small front garden, with good cast-iron railings, provides a pleasant setting.