house — Rafter Street

Terraced four-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, c.1900, probably incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1840, on site. Renovated, c.1975, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor incorporating fabric of original shopfront. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stacks having stringcourses, capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls over random rubble stone construction incorporating section of red brick irregular bond construction. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills forming part of cornice to first floor, and one-over-one timber sash windows (outline of square-headed window opening under carriageway to ground floor side (south) elevation with timber frame supporting timber lintel, and red brick irregular bond infill). Replacement timber shopfront, c.1975, to ground floor incorporating fabric of original shopfront on cut-granite chamfered base with paired panelled (hollow) pilasters on risers, fixed-pane (four-light) display windows, fascia having paired fluted consoles supporting panelled stops, and moulded cornice. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.