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Terraced two-bay three-storey house over raised basement, built c.1750, rebuilt, along with No. 42, by O'Callaghan and Webb c.1914. Now in multiple occupancy. Hipped artificial slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles set behind parapet wall with granite coping and replacement cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through parapet wall. Large brown brick chimneystack with clay pots, shared with No. 42, suggesting internal corner chimneybreasts. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond with flush pointing and cement rendered wall to basement. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with concrete sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening with painted stone Gibbsian doorcase comprising replacement timber panelled door with stepped lintel cornice and original Y-tracery timber Gothick fanlight. Door opens onto concrete step, concrete platform and three concrete steps to street. Platform enclosed by replacement steel railing on moulded granite plinth wall, returning to enclose partly sunken basement area.

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