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Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1785 as pair with No. 11 to east, with shallow bow to west bays of rear elevation, flat-roofed attic storey over bow, and one, two and three-storey additions to rear of west end of rear. Now in commercial office use. Pitched slate roof to front pile and hipped to west end, behind brick parapet with granite coping, and flat-roofed to rear, with shallow faceted roof over bow. Brick chimneystacks to party wall with No. 11. Concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond brick walling with ashlar granite plinth course over painted and rendered basement walls; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals and granite sills, having decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Replacement timber sliding sash windows, six-over-nine pane to ground floor, nine-over-nine pane to first floor, six-over-six pane to second and top floors, and one-over-one pane to basement; similar fenestration to rear. Round-headed door opening with brick archivolt, painted rendered masonry doorcase with engaged Ionic columns having acanthus flower-enriched capitals, entablature, frieze detailed with urn, festoons and aegicrania, foliate garlands and rams' heads, plain fanlight with scalloped archivolt, and ten-panel timber door with figurative brass knocker. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrapes and three steps to street. Wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron corner posts on granite plinth enclosing basement area. Buildings to rear of plot.

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