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Terraced two-bay three-storey former house over basement, built c.1820. Now in use as flats. M-profile tiled roof, with replacement rainwater goods, behind parapet wall. Brick facade, laid in Flemish bond, with coping to parapet and smooth rendered with painted string course to basement level. Brick to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement timber sash windows. Round-headed entrance opening with replacement timber doorcase having fluted oversize console brackets, flat-panelled timber and petal fanlight. Replacement four-panelled timber door opens to concrete-covered platform, which spans basement well, with wrought-iron boot scraper and granite steps. Round-headed door opening to rear elevation with timber door opening to steel spiral staircase. Mild steel railings on painted concrete plinth wall surround basement well. Concrete steps with mild steel handrail descend to basement. Rear garden bounded to west by pebble-dashed wall.

A terraced brick house, part of a street developed during the 1820s with opposing identical terraces of houses. Built for the professional classes, the houses on the street went into decline in the later nineteenth century and subsequently became tenement dwellings. It is identical in style and treatment to neighbouring houses and contributes to the uniformity of the group, characterised by the proportions and restrained detailing typical of the period. Like many of the houses along Richmond Street North, it has lost its original sash windows and doors, but retains important streetscape features, including a railed basement area, and boot scraper.