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Attached three-bay four-storey over half-basement former house, built c. 1820, with double-pile gabled single-bay three-storey returns to rear and having canted window to ground floor of front elevation. Formerly also in use as post office, now in use as shops. Pitched slate roof with rubble limestone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls, except for exposed upper west gable which is rubble limestone. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and cut limestone sills. Fixed timber windows to canted window. Elliptical-headed door opening with timber surround and doorcase comprising flanking timber engaged columns with plinths, timber architrave and cornice with elaborate cobweb fanlight. Door to interior of hall echoes main entrance door, but for pilasters an simpler fanlight. Approached by flight of splaying cut limestone steps with cast-iron railings. Concrete steps to basement with square-headed opening and replacement uPVC door. Cast-iron boundary railings to front with cut limestone plinths.

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