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W.J. Sloan — Main Street

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W.J. Sloan — Main Street
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End-of-terrace five-bay three-storey house, built c.1850, with a hardware store to ground floor. Two-storey return to rear with chamfered corner and modern extension. Pitched roof. Ruled-and-lined render to upper storeys with stucco quoins and dentil cornice. Continuous sill course to first floor windows. Channelled render to ground floor with shopfront. Recessed central shop entrance with step flanked by decorative cast-iron columns with timber and glazed double doors with overlight and display windows, surmounted by fascia with ceramic lettering 'W.J. Sloan' and console brackets. Stucco surrounds to windows with painted sills. Timber sash windows to upper floors with hoods to first floor. Round-headed window opening to central bay with block-and-start surround. Door opening to east end of building with pedimented block-and-start surround, timber panelled door and overlight. Limestone plaque set into threshold of shop entrance reads "W.J. Sloan Est. 1863".

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