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worker's house — Colville Street

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Detached three- or five-bay single-storey engine drivers' dormitory house with half-dormer attic, occupied 1911, on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay single-storey advanced porch. Sold, 1984, to accommodate alternative use. Closed, 2004. For sale, 2009. Now disused. Pitched slate roof including flat roofs to window openings to half-dormer attic with clay ridge tiles, paired roughcast central chimney stacks having terracotta cornice capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Square-headed central door opening in segmental-headed recess with timber surround framing timber panelled door. Paired square-headed flanking window openings in camber-headed recesses with concrete sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings over framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (half-dormer attic) with timber surrounds framing four-over-four timber sash windows having exposed sash boxes. Street fronted on a corner site with piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting timber gate.

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