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house — Fownes Street Upper

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Attached four-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c.1730, having recent shopfront to front (east) elevation. Now in use as offices and retail unit. Flat roof, hidden behind lined-and-ruled rendered parapet with granite coping. Brick chimneystacks having clay pots. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, with render plinth course. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and six-over-six pane, three-over-three pane and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, those to ground floor having exposed sash boxes, with some timber panelled shutters visible to interior. Segmental-headed opening to basement with cast-iron bars. Round-headed door opening with carved stone block-and-start surround having stone cornice, timber spoked fanlight, granite steps, and replacement timber panelled doors. Timber battened shopfront, square-headed door and window openings, granite steps to door. Located to west side of Fownes Street Upper, facing Central Bank Plaza.

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