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Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c.1895, with single-height canted bay and shared pedimented gable with terracotta roundel to front (south) elevation, and having return to rear elevation. M-profile pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with bull-nosed and corbelled red brick eaves course, granite plinth course and terracotta panels to canted bay. Segmental-headed window openings with terracotta lintels, red brick reveals and granite sills having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Shouldered-arch door opening with terracotta lintel having egg-and-dart moulding and brick reveals, framed by brick pilasters with granite bases and foliate capitals supporting brick frieze and cornice having timber panelled door and plain over-light. Granite steps and tiled platform. Cast-iron railings set on granite plinth with matching cast-iron pedestrian gate to garden boundary to front. Concrete breeze block outbuilding with square-headed opening with timber doors to rear site.

This well-built house is part of a group of two terraces made up of sixteen late nineteenth-century houses on the north side of the North Circular Road. The mechanisation of brick manufacture began in the nineteenth century and the brick and terracotta detailing used in the terrace are characteristic of its application in domestic architecture. The entrance is particularly well designed, with a recessed panelled timber door and over-light framed within a pilastered opening for architectural effect. The terrace's uniform roof-line is punctuated by pedimented gables. The North Circular Road was laid out in the 1780s to create convenient approaches to the city. It developed slowly over the following century with the far west and east ends developing last.