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The Porter House — Parliament Street

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The Porter House — Parliament Street
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Attached two-bay four-storey over basement former house and retail outlet, built c.1880, having shopfront to front (west) elevation. Now in use as public house. M-profile roof hidden behind smooth rendered parapet with render coping, platband and cornice to front. Brown brick chimneystack. Red brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls, having rendered platband over shopfront. Clock within timber bracket to first floor. Segmental-headed window openings with moulded red brick surrounds, chamfered brick reveals and black brick voussoirs to first and second floor recessed openings, cut granite sill course to third floor, corbelled yellow brick sill course to second floor, masonry sills with decorative floral relief tiled aprons to first floor. One-over-one pane timber sash windows. Recent timber shopfront, having square-headed window and door openings with timber framed fixed pane windows and half-glazed door. Situated on east side and north end of Parliament Street.

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