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Westport House

worker's house
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Westport House
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Detached ten-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1838, originally two separate three-bay single-storey workers' houses centred on pair of two-bay single-storey workers' houses. Modified, pre-1897, to accommodate alternative use. Occupied, 1911. Renovated to accommodate continued private residential use. Replacement pitched slate roof with ridge tiles terminating in paired cement rendered red brick Running bond diagonal chimney stacks on cement rendered bases having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards on boxed cut-limestone eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed coursed tooled cut-limestone battered wall to front (north-east) elevation; replacement cement rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed door openings with tooled cut-limestone thresholds, and timber surrounds framing timber panelled doors having "mouth organ" overlights. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on tooled cut-limestone keystones framing timber casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Westport House.

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