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Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house with attic level, built c. 1830, formerly with shop/office to ground floor, now removed. Now in use as a house. Pitched artificial slate roof (fibre cement) with clay ridge tiles, projecting eaves course, some remaining cast-iron rainwater goods, and with rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (north-west and south-east). Smooth rendered walls over projecting rendered plinth, and having rock-faced painted sandstone block-and-start surrounds to the corners. Remains of rendered base to pilasters of former shop front to north-west side of ground floor level; chamfered corner with stop-chamfer to rear of north-west side elevation. Square-headed window openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, stone sills, and with rock-faced block-and-start sandstone surrounds to the first floor openings and raised block-and-start surrounds at ground floor window opening to south-east having raised and fielded lozenge/diamond keystone motif. Square-headed window opening to former shop/office having modern timber casement window. Central square-headed entrance door opening having timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, plinth blocks to base, raised block-and-start surround with raised and fielded lozenge/diamond keystone motif and plain overlight. Decorative head mouldings/corbels over doorway. Road-fronted to the south-east of Mountcharles town centre. Laneway to the north-west giving access to rear. Single-storey outbuildings to the rear having lean-to roofs, lime-washed rubble stone and roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed openings.

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