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A Nice Old Bookshop — Main Street

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A Nice Old Bookshop — Main Street
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Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1840, altered c.1880 to include half-dormers and shopfronts to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater good and timber bargeboards and battening to dormers. Painted smooth rendered walls with render block-and-start quoins. Square-headed openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows (second floor) and timber casement windows (first floor), all having rendered sills and block-and-start render surrounds. Two timber shopfronts united under single fascia board and cornice supported by fluted pilasters with decorative scroll brackets. Shopfront to west comprises square-headed opening with round-headed arcade of fixed timber framed display windows, continued to overlight above timber glazed door with sidelight. Shopfront to east comprising square-headed opening with round-headed arcade of fixed timber framed openings, those to centre forming overlight above square-headed timber glazed door. Square-headed opening giving access to upper floors, having timber glazed door with overlight comprising paired round-headed openings.

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