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coastguard station — Dunbur Road

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coastguard station — Dunbur Road
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Multiple-bay two-storey former coastguard station, built 1868, comprising three-bay two-storey house to east end of terrace, having full-height return, five single-bay two-storey houses to centre of terrace, two-bay two-storey house to west end of terrace, having taller square-plan single-bay two-stage lookout tower to north-west corner. Now in use as houses. Hipped slate roofs, some replaced with tiles, rendered chimneystacks, moulded eaves course, some cast-iron rainwater goods. Pyramidal roof to tower. Unpainted rendered walls to tower and end-of-terrace houses, with red brick quoins. Painted and unpainted rendered walls to remainder of terrace. Square-headed openings, with mixed timber sliding sash windows and replacement windows. Square-headed door openings with replacement doors. Carriage house to rear of site, having pitched tiled roof with red brick chimneystack, rendered walls and segmental-headed carriage opening with painted cut stone voussoirs and block-and-start surround. Cut granite square-profile piers with pointed caps to carriage entrance; recent boundary treatment to front of houses.

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