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Terraced two-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1750. Now in multiple occupancy. Pitched slate roof hidden behind rebuilt parapet wall with masonry coping and lead hopper and downpipe breaking through to west end. Red brick chimneystacks to west with terracotta corbels and clay pots. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond above projecting rendered wall to basement. Gauged brick flat-arch window openings with painted masonry sills, replacement architrave surrounds and replacement single-pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening with painted masonry Doric doorcase. Replacement timber panelled door flanked by Doric pilasters on plinth blocks with entablature blocks supporting stepped lintel cornice and tripartite spoked timber fanlight with glazed hub and moulded archivolt with scrolled keystone. Door opens onto granite platform and two granite steps bridging basement area, enclosed by replacement steel railings on granite plinth wall. Basement area enclosed by replacement steel railing on moulded granite plinth wall. Steel gate and steel steps give basement access with steel gate below platform.

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