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Terraced four-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, c.1900, with square-headed carriageway to left ground floor. Extensively renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor and dormer attic added. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rooflights, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on moulded rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Painted rendered, ruled and lined wall with rendered channelled piers to ends, and rendered band to eaves continuing into moulded cornice. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Replacement timber shopfront to ground floor (incorporating square-headed carriageway to left) with paired fluted pilasters having consoles, fixed-pane timber display windows, glazed timber double doors having overlight, and fascia over. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

A substantial house distinguished in John Street Lower on account of the occupation of a sizeable footprint contributing to a varied streetscape pattern. Notwithstanding a comprehensive renovation programme the original form and massing survive in place to the upper floor together with some of the original fabric both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby maintaining the positive contribution made to an historic setting.