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Mountpleasant House — Mountpleasant Avenue

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Mountpleasant House — Mountpleasant Avenue
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Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1870, having slightly advanced centrepieces to end bays, and recessed porch entrance. Hipped slate roof with side eaves having timber corbels, and pair of rendered central chimneystacks. Smooth rendered walls with cut limestone plinth. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, and cut limestone sills. Segmental-headed porch with moulded limestone architrave, with cut-stone steps leading to segmental-headed door opening with lugged cut-stone surround, timber panelled door and overlight. Garden to front bounded by rubble limestone wall with tooled limestone quoins and capping, and having ornate cast-iron pedestrian gate, with cut-stone steps leading up to garden level. Octagonal-profile piers with recent double-leaf metal gates to vehicular entrance to south of site, with rubble stone flanking walls.

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