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Phil and Geraldine Wilson — Castle Street

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Phil and Geraldine Wilson — Castle Street
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Terraced three-bay four-storey house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Pitched slate roof behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, iron-covered coping to gables with rendered red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having paired stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and concealed rainwater goods. Rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (east) elevation with rusticated rendered quoins to ends supporting iron-covered ogee-detailed cornice; rendered surface finish (remainder). Shopfront to ground floor with ogee-detailed moulded rendered cornice on blind frieze on stringcourse. Camber-headed door opening (south) with cut-granite threshold, and moulded archivolt centred on keystone framing timber panelled door having overlight. Segmental-headed door opening (north) with cut-granite step threshold, doorcase with fluted Ionic columns on cut-granite padstones supporting monolithic cornice on Tudor Rose-detailed fluted frieze, and moulded surround framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Camber-headed window openings (upper floors) with ogee-detailed moulded rendered sill courses, and moulded rendered surrounds centred on keystones framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): shop with cornice to ceiling; (first floor): drawing rooms "en-suite" retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, and picture railings below moulded plasterwork cornices to ceilings; and (upper floors): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

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