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Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1890, with projecting entrance porch and gable-fronted end bay to front and rear. Set back from the road within its own grounds. One of a pair with the house to the east. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and red brick chimneystacks. Red brick walls to ground floor with decorative brickwork course separating ground and first floor levels. Roughcast render to first floor with exposed timber beams to gable-fronted projecting bay. Timber casement windows surmounted by fixed lead paned overlights with stone sills. Timber porch with slate lean-to roof with dormer window and eaves brackets, timber casement windows to porch. Square-headed door opening to side elevation of porch, flanked by decorative timber panels, surmounted timber overdoor and with replacement timber panelled door. House bounded to front by rendered plinth wall with limestone coping surmounted by cast-iron railings. Rendered gate piers and sheet metal gate access rear site. Outbuilding to rear site. Yard to the front is bounded by rendered plinth with stone coping surmounted by cast-iron railings accessed through carved timber gate piers with stone capping and metal gates.

Built as one of a pair of buildings, this Tudor Revival structure has much architectural merit with an impressive red brick chimneystack, decorative red brick detailing and unusual fenestration. Its most marked and obvious feature is the varied finishes used on its elevations, such as the red brick used in the ground floor contrasting with the roughcast render of the first floor with exposed timber beams. The entrance porch is also an important addition with the fine carved timber panels flanking the door, as well as the timber overdoor. As one of pair, this structure along with its neighbour, makes a striking late nineteenth-century architectural statement in a predominantly Georgian town.