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Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement brown brick house, built c. 1840. M-profile artificial slate pitched roof concealed behind a parapet wall. Lean-to return to rear. Partially rendered red brick chimneystacks to party walls. uPVC rainwater goods. Brown brick walls laid in Flemish bond, with cement re-pointing, with a flashed coping surmounting the parapet wall. Painted rendered basement elevation terminating beneath sill level. Cement rendered rear elevation. Square-headed window opening, brown brick flat arches, rendered reveals, limestone sills and replacement uPVC casement windows. Metal balconettes, c. 1980, to first floor level. Camber-arched window opening to basement level altered to form door opening with glazed uPVC door leaf. Segmental-arched door opening, brown brick arch, patent rendered reveals, limestone threshold step, and inset doorcase comprising: panelled uprights with console brackets supporting lintel entablature, and having a spoke wheel timber fanlight; original raised and fielded panelled timber door leaf, with horizontal central panel. Door opens onto tiled front door platform, which is arrived at from pavement level by limestone steps, limestone plinth walls with wrought-iron railings, which return to enclose the front site basement area. Concrete landing and metal steps access basement level.

This modestly-scaled late Georgian house is located within the heart of the Georgian Newtown Pery and conforms to the architectural hierarchy, which presents the most grandly-scaled houses on the main thoroughfares and houses of more modest character, though no less important to the secondary streets, such as Hartstonge Street. This house forms one of a terrace of twelve houses of similar scale, massing and fenestration alignment. The loss of original windows is regrettable, though the original doorcase and door leaf which survives gives prominence to the structure.