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Bedford Lodge — Mount Prospect Avenue

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Bedford Lodge — Mount Prospect Avenue
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Detached three-bay two-storey house over basement, built c. 1820, having flat-roofed porch to front (south-east) elevation, two-storey range adjoining south-west elevation, and recent extension to north-east. M-profile pitched natural slate roof, hipped to range to south-west, with rendered chimneystacks having clay pots, rendered parapet with render coping to front, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Render cornice and platband to porch. Smooth rendered walls having render quoins and plinth course over smooth rendered wall to basement. Square-headed window openings, those to ground floor set within round-headed recesses, with granite sills, and six-over-three pane, six-over-six pane and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed window openings to north-east and south-west elevations of porch, with timber-framed windows. Cast-iron bars to windows to basement and north-east elevation. Segmental-headed door opening to front, with carved timber doorcase, decorative fanlight and double-leaf timber panelled door. Granite nosed platform and granite steps, flanked by wrought-iron railings on granite plinth walls. Square-headed door opening to front of range to south-west, with timber panelled door. Double-leaf cast-iron gate flanked by square-plan rusticated limestone piers, with splayed roughcast rendered walls having render coping, and with single-leaf cast-iron gate to south of house.

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