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Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1755, remodelled c. 1850, having two-storey abutment to north end of rear. Now in commercial office use. Cruciform-plan slate roof, hipped to front and rear, with brick chimneystacks to south party wall, rebuilt brick parapet with granite coping, valley gutters, and cast-iron downpipe with hopper. Flemish bond red brick walling, rebuilt above top floor window head, and painted smooth rendered to basement with offset painted masonry coping. Square-headed window openings with patent reveals, painted masonry sills and replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sashes, diminishing in height to upper floors, with profiled horns and having some historic glass to first floor. Replacement uPVC windows to top floor, and eighteen-pane fixed timber window to basement. Elliptical-headed doorcase with painted moulded reveals, brick archivolt, panelled painted timber pilasters, scrolls, panelled lintel cornice with replacement uPVC coping, cast-iron petal fanlight, and replacement timber panelled door with reeded glass inserts to upper panels. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape, with one step to street. Wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron corner posts on painted masonry plinth enclosing basement area.

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