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Remains of Union Workhouse complex, built 1840-1; opened 1842, including: Detached single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted "cottage" with half-dormer attic on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey flush porch. Occupied, 1911. Vacated, 1919. "Restored", ----, to accommodate continued private residential use. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and no rainwater goods surviving on timber eaves boards on box eaves. Part repointed coursed rubble stone walls with red brick flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing replacement timber casement windows. Set back from road in landscaped grounds.
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