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Terraced two-bay three-storey house over raised basement, built c.1830, with two-storey rear extension. Built as one of group of five similar houses, now in multiple occupancy. M-profile slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, hipped to north, behind parapet wall with granite coping. Stepped rendered brick chimneystacks with clay pots to south party wall. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond, rebuilt to top half of façade in machine-made red brick. Granite plinth course over rendered basement walls and smooth cement rendered walls to rear elevation. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement timber casement windows, various windows to rear elevation including six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window to stairhall. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with deep moulded surround and painted masonry Doric doorcase. Early timber panelled door flanked by engaged Doric columns on plinth blocks supporting plain lintel cornice and plain glazed fanlight. Door opens onto extended concrete platform with three concrete steps. Platform enclosed by original wrought-iron railings set on low rendered wall with granite coping to north and on granite plinth wall to south. Front garden enclosed by cement rendered wall to street.

This house forms a component part of a terrace of seven tall red brick houses dating from the late Georgian period. Built as a result of the expansion of the city, brought about by the opening of the North Circular Road and the arrival of the railway, the house has had most external fabric replaced but retains its overall composition. Collectively, the terrace presents an early residential aspect to the street and is a good example of a late Georgian streetscape on the outer reaches of the Georgian city.