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Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house with dormer attic, built 1804. Rectangular-plan, lobby entry, gable-fronted porches to north and south elevations, extension to north, lean-to extension to east. Suppressed-hipped straw thatched roof, scallop pinnings, scalloped ridges and eaves over windows, red brick corbelled chimneystacks with mortar aprons. Painted roughcast-rendered walling smooth rendered plinth and straight quoins, evidence of stone base and clay wall construction exposed to east gable; smooth rendered ruled and lined walling to porches. Square-headed window openings, smooth rendered soffits and reveals, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to porch south, timber panelled door. Set at right-angle with road to east, random rubble boundary wall with reused date stone "F McD 1804", concrete yard to south, smooth rendered and corrugated-iron farm buildings.

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