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Terraced two-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a square plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hopper and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls. Square-headed door opening with rendered "bas-relief" block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing timber boarded door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or two-over-two (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A house representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of Castlebridge with the urban vernacular quality of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact square plan form; the feint battered silhouette; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roofline. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained group alongside adjoining houses (see 15614012 - 15614013) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in a rural village setting presently (2007) undergoing extensive "suburban" redevelopment.