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Terraced two-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built in period 1763-73. Now in multiple occupancy. Double-pile slate roof with pair of hipped sections set perpendicular to rear. Shared rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to south party wall. Roof hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping and shared cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to south. Tinted red brick walls laid in Flemish bond set on chamfered granite plinth course over rendered basement walls. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to lower floors, three-over-three pane to top floor, and eight-over-eight pane to basement. Replacement iron balconettes to first floor windows. Gauged brick three-centred arched door opening with moulded masonry surround and painted stone Ionic doorcase. Nineteenth-century flat-panelled timber door flanked by fluted Ionic columns on plinth bases supporting panelled lintel cornice with wreaths and leaded petal fanlight. Door opens onto concrete platform flush to street, bridging basement area. Platform and basement area enclosed by replacement steel railings on moulded granite plinth wall and pair of steel gates enclosing platform to street.

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