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Semi-detached, three-bay, three-storey house, built 1864, now a bank, with mirror-image house attached to south end. Pitched, gable-ended slate roof having cement-rendered chimney to party wall to south, with projecting, lined timber eaves with paired painted mutules to underside, and stucco string course to wall immediately below. Cast iron rainwater goods. Painted ruled and lined cement rendered walls with rusticated stucco bands to corners and plain projecting rendered window and door surrounds. Date stone to centre of two buildings, at first floor level, states, “ERECTED BY DAVID WILSON, DRUMANENEY, 1864”. First and second floors each have three segmental-headed two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. Ground floor has two adjacent semicircular-headed one-over-one timber sliding sash windows, a wide, segmental-headed shop window adjacent to party wall, and a central square-headed door, with glazed side panels and segmental-headed plain-glazed fanlight over. Painted cast iron railings on painted stone plinth, with cast iron gateposts to entrance. Modern, painted steel hollow section handrail to modern concrete entrance ramp and two steps. Street front access to rear via laneway to side. Building is set back from the public footpath on The Diamond.

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