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apartment/flat (purpose-built) — Ellis Court

apartment/flat (purpose-built)
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apartment/flat (purpose-built) — Ellis Court
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Freestanding ten-bay four-storey apartment block, built 1885-88, with five-bay side elevation to north, three-bay elevation to south, near-full-height returns with hipped roofs to rear (east) elevation, and having shopfront to north-west corner. Now disused. Flat-roofed having cut granite cornice to red brick parapets interspersed with decorative cast-iron balustrades. Red brick chimneystacks. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond having blue brick decorative courses over rock-faced limestone and chamfered granite plinth. Yellow brick walls to rear elevations. Decorative gabled breakfront to entrance bays to front elevation, formed by strip buttresses. Pitched slate roofs to gables. Part rendered gable elevation to east. Segmental-arched window openings having two-over-two and one-over-one timber sash windows and cut granite sills, ground floor windows boarded-up. Round-arched windows to central entrance bay having decorative brick surrounds, cut stone keystone and flush granite sill with timber casement windows, louvres above. Square-headed door opening having rendered surround, openings boarded-up. Shopfront to corner comprises render cornice and nameplate over square-headed blocked opening (to north elevation) and square-headed recesses with blocked segmental-headed window openings to west elevation.

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