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Terraced two-bay four-storey house, c.1800. Renovated, pre-1880, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Refenestrated, post-1880. Reroofed, c.1950. Now entirely in commercial use. One of a group of four. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement fibre-cement slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond (shared) chimney stacks having capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves having iron ties. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, post-1880, having timber casement windows to top floor. Timber shopfront, pre-1880, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with carved pilasters having decorative consoles, fixed-pane display window, glazed timber door, timber panelled door to house having overlight or overpanel, and fascia having moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

An elegantly appointed house of the middle size built as one of a group of four identical units (with 15605158 - 159, 161) identified in the streetscape by attributes including the slender vertical quality of the massing, the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor in the Classical manner, the understated decorative detailing, and so on. Having been well maintained, the house presents an early aspect with the historic fabric surviving largely intact, both to the exterior and to the interior including an appealing traditional shopfront of artistic design interest making a positive impression on the character of North Street at street level.