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Terrace of fourteen two-bay houses, built c.1855, three comprising two-storey over basement, others comprising two-storey, having returns to rear (east) elevation. Pitched roofs and hipped M-profile slate and artificial slate roofs, having brick and rendered chimneystacks, cut granite coping to parapet, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Yellow brick walls laid in Flemish bond, red brick walls to No.2. Square-headed window openings having cut granite sills, two-over-two pane and six-over-six pane timber sash windows and replacement uPVC windows. Some two-over-two pane with margin sashes to ground floor. Elliptical-arched door openings having moulded render surrounds, carved doorcases with decorative consoles, plain and leaded fanlights, and timber panelled doors, approached by nosed granite steps. Cut granite steps with wrought-iron railings to houses over basement. Some cast-iron bootscrapes. Wrought-iron railings on cut granite plinth to front gardens, with matching pedestrian gates. Some railings removed forming driveways.

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