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Terraced two-bay three-storey house over raised basement, built c.1830, with single-storey rear return. Now in use as residential children’s home with adjoining building No. 20. M-profile pitched artificial slate roof with central valley set behind rebuilt parapet wall and having stepped rendered brick chimneystacks, shared with adjoining buildings. Brown brick walls laid in Flemish bond to painted granite plinth course and rendered basement wall. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent render reveals, painted stone sills and replacement uPVC sash-type windows. Replacement windows to rear including two round-headed stair windows with replacement timber sliding sash windows. Three-centred arched door opening formed in brick with moulded masonry surround and decorative timber doorcase, and with replacement timber door with ten raised-and-fielded panels, flanked by slender panelled pilasters and scrolled console brackets supporting panelled lintel cornice and original peacock fanlight. Door opens onto granite platform, bridging basement area, and two steps enclosed by wrought-iron railing and twentieth-century iron gates to street. Basement enclosed by original railing on moulded plinth wall with square-headed window opening having ten-over-ten pane timber sliding sash window and iron grille. Rear brick south-facing elevation is two-bay with two round-headed stair landing windows with replacement timber sliding sash windows. Rear south facing rubble stone boundary wall to rear access lane.

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