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Terraced two-bay four-storey house over raised basement, built c.1730, restored c.1995, now in commercial office use. M-profile slate roof with ridges set perpendicular to street, hipped behind parapet wall with convex moulded granite coping, gabled to rear. Brick chimneystack with clay pots to west party wall. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with recent tuck lime pointing, replacement chamfered granite plinth course over ruled-and-lined cement rendered basement walls. Rubbed gauged brick flat-arched window openings with Portland stone sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows with part exposed sash boxes. Gauged brick segmental-headed slender window opening to east ground floor with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed door opening with pedimented Portland stone doorcase. Replacement timber door with raised-and-fielded panels, architrave surround flanked by slender panels resting on common plinth blocks surmounted by scrolled console brackets framing pulvinated frieze and supporting full segmental pediment with lead lining. Door opens onto granite platform and seven granite steps (replacement to lower two), bridging the basement. Platform enclosed by replacement iron railings on replacement moulded granite plinth wall swept to street and returning to enclose basement areas to either side. Matching iron gate to east with stone steps to basement entrance.

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