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Terraced two-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1765, with full-height rear extension. Now in use as offices and interconnected with No. 48. Single-span slate roof, hipped to north with rebuilt yellow brick chimneystack with clay pots to south party wall. Flat roof to rear extension. Roof hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond on moulded granite plinth course over cement rendered basement walls. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere to front facade. Replacement iron balconettes to first floor windows and iron support to ground floor window. Square-headed replacement timber door set within limestone Doric doorcase with plain limestone jambs and lintel cornice, flanked by engaged Doric columns on plinth bases supporting entablature blocks in turn supporting open pediment housing fanlight with Y-tracery. Single slender square-headed fixed paned timber sidelight to north side of doorway. Door opens onto granite platform and three nosed granite steps with decorative cast-iron bootscraper, bridging basement. Platform and basement enclosed by replacement iron railings and corner piers set on raised moulded granite plinth wall with matching gate and steel steps to basement. Five-storey office and apartment development to rear of site accessed from Granby Place.

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