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Sheerwater — Gordon Villas

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Sheerwater — Gordon Villas
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Semi-detached Venetian Gothic Revival style four-bay two-storey dormer attic house, built c.1880. Breakfront to south end of front (south-east) elevation comprising single-bay three-stage turret with gabled end bays to south-west. Balcony to north end of front elevation to first floor. Lean-to extensions to rear (north-west). Pitched and hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped and jerkin slate roofed dormer windows. Hipped slate roof with lead flashing to turret having roll moulded render cornice and finial. Finial to front elevation dormer. Rendered walls having rendered string courses to impost level of ground and first floors incorporating hood mouldings of windows and doors. Roll moulded sill band to first floor and front elevation dormer. Tiled platbands to first and second-stage impost levels of turret, below eaves of north end of front elevation and apex of gabled end bays. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills and surrounds, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout. Ornate render tympanums to ground floor windows of gabled-end bays with tiled panels beneath sills. Tiled tympanums to first floor windows to north end of front elevation with tiled panelling below sills. Rendered hood moulding and sill band to front elevation gable having flanking render panels, ocular render medallion with flanking moulded floral motifs surmounting window opening. Lead-lined stained glass windows to rear elevation windows. Pointed arch door opening with rendered surround to front elevation, having stone stepped approach, timber panelled door, pendant overlight and sidelights. Square-headed door opening to balcony having rendered surround and replacement uPVC French door and overlight. Balcony supported on cast-iron column having replacement timber balustrades. Concrete steps to approach to front within rubble stone enclosed garden having rendered gate piers and replacement timber gate. Rubble stone boundary wall to rear having replacement timber gate.

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