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Terraced two-bay three-storey house, extant 1838, originally two separate single-bay three-storey houses. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stacks having rendered cut-limestone capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (south) with bull nose-detailed rendered panelled quoins to ends; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (north). Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash (first floor) or timber casement (top floor) windows. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

A house representing an interesting component of the built heritage of Westport with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression: meanwhile, variations in the surface finish clearly illustrate the origins of the composition as two separate houses (cf. 31212100). Although recently much modified at street level, the elementary form and massing survive intact overhead together with quantities of the historic fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby upholding much of the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in Bridge Street.