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Pair of terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former houses, built c.1800, with shared three-storey flat-roofed return to rear. Now in use as flats. Pitched M-profile roof, hipped to west, hidden behind parapet to front (north) elevation with cut granite coping. Rendered chimneystacks on party wall. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond. Cut granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement areas. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings having painted granite sills and patent reveals. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows. Timber sash windows, three-over-three pane to third floor front elevation, bipartite windows with two-over-two panes to basement, six-over-six pane to other front openings. Mixed two-over-two pane timber sash windows and replacement windows to rear elevation. Round-headed stair windows to rear elevation, having small-pane timber sash windows. Round-arched door openings having painted masonry surrounds with engaged Ionic columns supporting fluted frieze and cornice. Petal fanlight to no.64, replacement fanlight to no.63. Timber panelled doors. Cut granite steps to entrance platforms having cast-iron railings and corner posts on granite retaining walls. Basement areas enclosed from pavement by cut granite plinth wall with cast-iron railings.

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