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The Gables — William Street

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The Gables — William Street
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Attached five-bay two-storey house with integral carriage arch, built c. 1875, as a pair with the adjoining house to the east. Rectangular-plan, projecting gable-fronted bays to south and south-west, lean-to addition to west, integral carriage arch to south-east. Pitched artificial slate roofs, red brick corbelled chimneystack, cast-iron gutters to corbelled eaves course, circular cast-iron downpipes, painted timber bargeboard to west gable. Smooth rendered ruled-and-line walling to south elevation, continuous tooled stone sill course to first floor windows, east of south elevation, painted smooth rendered walling to west. Square-headed window openings, painted and unpainted stone sills, cornice supported on scrolled console brackets to gable-fronted bay, south elevation, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows, four-over-four sliding sash windows and uPVC windows to south elevation; one-over-one, two-over-two, tripartite and paired timber sliding sash windows with margin lights and round-headed sliding sash window to west elevation. Square-headed door opening to south, plain-glazed overlight, painted timber door with four raised-and-fielded panels, wrought-iron bootscraper to front site; square-headed carriage arch, painted timber lintel, ashlar limestone surround, painted timber decorative double doors with cast-iron fret work to upper sections. Street fronted, garden to north, red brick outbuilding to north.

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