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Independent House — Middle Abbey Street

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Independent House — Middle Abbey Street
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Terraced seven-bay five-storey commercial building,built c.1935, as extension to Independent House to east. Currently empty. Flat roof set behind granite ashlar parapet wall with steel railing. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond arranged in giant pilasters from first to third floors with slightly advanced end bays and deep moulded dentillated granite cornice over third floor. Yellow brick walls to rear elevation, red brick walls to west side elevation. Square-headed window openings to top floor with granite architrave surrounds, stepped granite keystones and replacement uPVC windows. Recessed bays to first, second and third floors arranged vertically with granite ashlar surrounds and apron panels with some original multiple-pane steel casement windows and some replacement uPVC windows. Channel rusticated granite walls to ground floor with full-span granite cornice and plinth course. Square-headed window and door openings with granite architrave surrounds, boarded up windows and double-leaf timber doors with raised-and-fielded panels and rectangular overlights.

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