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Vale View — Martin's Row

orphanage/children's home
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Vale View — Martin's Row
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End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey former orphanage building, built c.1900, as one of pair, now in use as house. Natural slate roof, pitched to east, hipped to west, with rendered chimneystack rising from west side elevation. Moulded cast-iron guttering supported on stepped red brick eaves course. Machine-made red brick walls laid in Dutch bond. Gauged brick flat-arch window openings with granite ashlar sills and replacement uPVC windows. Gauged brick flat-arch door opening with flat-panelled timber door and rectangular over-light. Door opens onto concrete paved platform and five concrete steps enclosed by cement rendered raking walls. Long front garden elevated above street level with flight of concrete steps opening onto street via replacement flush timber door and enclosed by tall calp limestone rubble walls.

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