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Terraced two-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, c.1880, retaining early fenestration to upper floor. Renovated, c.1995, with openings remodelled to left ground floor having timber shopfront inserted. One of a group of four. Gable-ended roof (shared) with slate (gabled to half-dormer attic windows). Decorative crested ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack. Timber bargeboards to half-dormer attic windows. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Painted. Roughcast walls to half-dormer attic windows. Painted. Square-headed window openings to ground floor remodelled, c.1995, with additional opening inserted forming paired window openings. Concrete sill. Replacement timber casement windows. Shallow segmental-headed window openings to half-dormer attic. Stone sills. Original 6/6 timber sash windows. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1995, with overlight. Timber shopfront, c.1995, to ground floor with panelled pilasters having timber fascia over with moulded consoles. Road fronted. Concrete flagged footpath to front.

This house, built as one of a group of four houses, is a fine and attractive small-scale building that retains some of its original character – the house is of social interest as an early example of a small-scale residential development in the locality. Extensively renovated in the late twentieth century to accommodate a commercial use, much of the original form has been lost to the ground floor, with additional openings inserted containing unsympathetic fenestration, and a timber pilaster shopfront that dominates the front (south-east) elevation. The house retains most of its original form and character to the upper floor, however, with multi-pane timber sash fenestration to the half-dormer attic windows and a slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and decorative cresting to the ridges. The house is of importance for its contribution to the streetscape of Main Street, continuing the established streetline of the terrace, while adding incident to the roofline through the presence of gabled half-dormer attic windows.