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The Merchant House / Basic Instinct — Eustace Street

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The Merchant House / Basic Instinct — Eustace Street
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Attached two-bay four-storey over basement former house, built c.1720. Facade, shared with house to south, rebuilt c.1870. Now in use as guesthouse and shop with recent shopfront to front (east) elevation. Cruciform slate roof shared with house to south, having bundled chimneystack to north, and red brick parapet with granite coping. Red brick laid in Flemish bond to front, having cogged and geometric-design brick eaves course, and rusticated render to ground floor. Rendered gabled wall to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed window openings with granite sills, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Channelled stone and timber shopfront, comprising pilasters, stylised corbel brackets supporting fascia over square-headed door and window openings, with replacement timber-panelled door and window openings. Closed-string dog-legged staircase to interior with plain balusters and ramped handrails aligned under stringer above. Corner red brick chimneystacks to third floor, with articulated roof structure comprising purlins, valley rafters and collar ties. Granite paving and kerb stones to front. Two-storey, hipped-roof, rendered mews with two-over-two pane timber sash windows to rear.

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