house — Main Street North

Terraced three-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1775. Reroofed and renovated, 2003/4, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched roof replacement artificial slate, 2003/4, clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond (shared) chimney stack, rooflight(s), and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having shared cast-iron ogee hopper and downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered channelled piers to ends. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Replacement polished black granite shopfront, 2003/4, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with fixed-pane display windows on polished granite bases, Portland stone-faced centrepiece incorporating glazed sliding double doors, and lined coping. Interior with timber staircase having carved timber balustrade incorporating Doric newel supporting carved timber handrail, carved (reeded) timber surrounds to door openings to upper floors having timber panelled doors, papered walls [undated], timber panelled shutters to window openings, and decorative plasterwork cornices to ceilings. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.