French — Main Street

Terraced three-bay three-storey house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with pair of shopfronts to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls; rendered surface finish to rear (north) elevation. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite threshold, and cut-granite Gibbsian surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Pair of flanking shopfronts. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (first floor) or three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows without horns. Interior including (ground floor): central hall with timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled walls, carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, moulded cornice to embossed papered ceiling, staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in finial-topped turned timber newel, carved timber surrounds to window openings to half-landings, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.