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DNG Chesser — Cecil Street

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DNG Chesser — Cecil Street
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Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement rendered former townhouse, built c. 1810, with a stuccoed ground floor c. 1860, a front railed basement area and a slender return containing staircase. Pitched roof behind parapet wall with painted coping and a shared brick chimneystack to the east party wall. Painted ruled and lined rendered walls, with a sill course above ground floor level with rusticated rendered quoins. Plain rendered to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings to upper floors with limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. To the ground floor the door and two window openings have camber-headed arches with a moulded architrave shouldered surrounds and cavetto corniced sills. Six-over-six bowed timber sash windows c. 1860 with modern glass. A replacement timber-panelled door and overlight opens onto a limestone step and concrete platform area. Modern steel railings on a cement plinth enclose the basement area with concrete steps giving access to the basement level. Some six-over-six timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes to the return including a round-headed timber sash window.

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