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End-of-terrace two-bay (three-bay deep) four-storey over basement house and shop, designed c.1823, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. Hip-fronted pitched slate roof behind parapet with ridge tiles, chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping, and concealed rainwater goods. Granite ashlar wall to front (north) elevation with beaded cornice on frieze on entablature; red brick Flemish bond surface finish (upper floors) with rusticated cut-granite quoins to corner supporting ogee-detailed cornice below parapet; brown or stock brick Flemish bond surface finish (remainder) on rendered chamfered plinth with cut-granite coping to parapet. Shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with cut-granite panelled pilasters supporting archivolts. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and red brick voussoirs framing six-over-six or six-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows. Segmental-headed central door opening to side (west) elevation with terrazzo step threshold, and moulded rendered surround framing replacement glazed timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and red brick voussoirs framing six-over-six or six-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows. Quay fronted on a corner site with granite flagged footpath to front having cut-granite kerbing.

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