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house — Dorset Street Upper

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Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1760, with projecting hardwood shopfront inserted to ground floor and in multiple occupancy. Pitched slate roof on T-plan, gabled to rear and set behind parapet wall with granite coping. Cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through parapet wall and rendered chimneystack to south party wall. Painted cement rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and replacement hardwood windows. Round-headed door opening with Gibbsian granite doorcase including original wood-grained timber door with eight raised-and-fielded panels, with plain fanlight. Door opens onto granite platform and four granite steps enclosed by wrought-iron railing set into cement rendered plinth walls, projecting into public domain.

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