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Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1810, with three-bay two-storey return to rear. Now in commercial office use. M-profile pitched slate roof behind brick parapet with lead-lined coping, having parapet gutters, cast-iron downpipe and hopper. Pitched slate roof to return. Flemish bond red brick walling with recent wigging, and tooled ashlar limestone basement with lead-lined granite plinth course above; rendered to rear and to return. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals, granite sills, brick voussoirs, cut stone reveals to basement window, and replacement double-glazed timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor, two-over-two pane to basement and six-over-six pane elsewhere; rear has three-over-three pane windows to top floor, six-over-six pane to second floor and eight-over-eight pane to lower floors. Decorative nineteenth-century cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows and mild-steel guard-rails to second floor. Elliptical-headed doorcase with moulded reveals, pro-style Ionic columns, entablature with panelled frieze, decorative leaded fanlight and eleven-panel timber door. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and four bull-nosed steps to street level. Basement area enclosed by decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on painted masonry plinth. Iron coal-hole cover to pavement. Rear of plot has carparking and hospital buildings.

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