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house — Montpelier Hill

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Attached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1800. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to central valley to rear, red brick chimneystacks having clay chimneypots, raised red brick parapet wall with granite coping to front (north) and side elevations. Red brick walls, laid in Flemish bond to front and English garden wall bond to rear, carved granite plinth course over rendered wall to basement, rendered wall to east gable. Square-headed window openings having granite sills, rendered reveals, and replacement uPVC windows. Round-arched door opening to front, red brick voussoirs, moulded masonry surround, Ionic columns supporting fluted frieze and cornice, blocked fanlight over. Timber panelled door, render step, opening onto paved granite platform bridging basement area having three nosed granite steps to footpath. Platform flanked by wrought-iron railings on carved granite plinth walls, with cast-iron corner posts, continuing around to enclose basement area and with double-leaf wrought-iron gate to front of steps. Wrought-iron gate opening to steel steps to basement area.

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