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house — The Octagon

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house — The Octagon
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What is recorded here

Terraced five-bay two-storey house, extant 1838, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height breakfront on an engaged half-octagonal plan. Renovated with replacement shopfronts inserted to ground floor. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on half-octagonal artificial slate roof, ridge tiles terminating in cement rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and uVPC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered cut-limestone eaves. Rendered (west) or fine roughcast (east) walls. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front having cut-limestone kerbing.

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