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house — Dorset Street Upper

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Terraced two-bay four-storey house over raised basement, built c.1760, on staggered plan. Now in multiple occupancy. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles on T-plan with rear gable set behind parapet wall with granite coping. Brown brick chimneystack with clay pots rising from south party wall. Painted ruled-and-lined cement render walls to painted granite plinth course and rendered basement. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening with painted masonry Doric doorcase. Original timber door with eight raised-and-fielded panels flanked by engaged Doric columns on plinth bases with moulded lintel cornice, original elaborate cobweb leaded fanlight, and moulded archivolt. Door opens onto concrete paved platform and four granite steps. Platform and basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth wall.

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