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Corner-sited attached two-bay three-storey former house over basement, built c. 1870, with return to rear. Now in use as apartments. M-profile pitched roof, partially hidden behind red brick parapet having cut granite coping, with stepped corbelled brick cornice and black brick stringcourse. Red brick chimneystacks. Red brick, laid in Flemish bond, to wall to front (south) elevation, having cut granite plinth course over rendered basement walls. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to rear and return. Square-headed window openings with cut granite sills having mixed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash and replacement windows. Segmental-headed door opening having moulded render hood-moulding with foliate stops. Timber doorcase comprising paired pilasters, stepped overhanging cornice, plain fanlight and replacement timber panelled door. Cut granite steps flanked by decorative cast-iron railings. Cast-iron gate having arrowhead finials, matching railings on granite plinth wall, to front.

This building retains much of its early form and character, maintaining the scale and proportions of its neighbours, while the decorative detail marks it apart from the terrace. Nuances of the Gothic Revival style, popular in the Victorian era, are evident in the decorative hood-moulding. The survival of cast-ironwork attests to the artisanship in mass-production in ironwork of the later nineteenth century, and contributes to the suburban character of the streetscape. Streets were laid out in this part of the city in the early nineteenth century, following the opening of the canal harbour in 1801, though it was the latter half of the nineteenth century before this street began to develop in earnest.