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Historic building — Casa Rio

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Historic building — Casa Rio
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End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey foundry worker's house, built 1947, with canted bay window to right ground floor. Refenestrated, pre-1993. Now in private residential use. One of a group of thirteen. Hipped and pitched fibre-cement slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick English Garden Wall bond chimney stack on axis with ridge having stepped capping incorporating saw tooth-profiled course supporting terracotta pots, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on red brick header bond eaves. Roughcast walls on random rubble stone base with red brick quoins to corner, and rendered stringcourses to each floor. Square-headed window openings (including to bay window on red brick English Garden Wall bond jetty having buttresses or corbels) with concrete sills forming part of sill courses (on 'timber frame' riser to bay window), and replacement aluminium casement windows, pre-1993. Pointed segmental-headed door opening approached by cantilevered causeway with red brick block-and-start surround, and glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Street fronted with random rubble stone boundary or retaining wall to river having rubble stone coping, and red brick Running bond pointed-arch panelled piers having red brick or terracotta courses supporting red brick stepped capping [VO/SS].

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