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Terraced two-bay three-storey house, c.1825. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor incorporating fabric of earlier shopfront, c.1900. Now in use as offices to ground floor. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond (shared) chimney stack having stepped capping, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, nine-over-six (first floor) and six-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows. Replacement timber shopfront to ground floor incorporating fabric of earlier shopfront, c.1900, with panelled pilasters retaining chamfered inner pilaster on padstone, display window, glazed timber panelled door having overlight, fascia having fluted consoles, and lined moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

A pleasantly appointed modest-scale house built as one of a group of three houses (including 15605037) making a dignified contribution to the streetscape aesthetic of North Street with attributes including the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor in the Classical manner producing an elegant tiered visual effect, the understated surface detailing, and so on, all identifying the architectural design value of the composition. Having been well maintained, the house continues to present an early aspect with most of the historic fabric surviving in place, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby maintaining some of the character or integrity of the collective ensemble in the street scene.