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Lichfield Cottage — Blackrock Road

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Lichfield Cottage — Blackrock Road
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Attached five-bay single-storey house, built c.1830, with gabled central bay, three-bay wing to east and two-storey gabled return to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, overhanging eaves, decorative timber bargeboards and eaves boards with cusped, trefoil and quatrefoil ornamentation, timber finial to gable, gabled dormer to eastern wing with finial and cusped and trefoil timberwork with tiny square opening. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with raised plinth. Tudor-arched window openings with hood mouldings springing from foliated stops, limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with cusped heads to the top three panes. Square-headed opening over front door with fixed trefoil-headed timber window and render hood moulding with foliated stops. Tudor-arched door opening set in moulded render surround comprising hood moulding resting on engaged shafts with capitals to timber panelled door having overlight with trefoil detailing, limestone threshold and cast-iron bootscraper. Roughcast rendered boundary wall with of square-profile ashlar piers with plinth and capping stones at pedestrian entrance with limestone step and cast-iron gate. Recent smooth rendered piers and sweep walls to vehicular entrance.

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