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Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1810, with three-bay rear elevation having two-bay bowed projection one storey lower than rest of building, and with single-storey abutment to rear of latter. Now in commercial office use. M-profile roof, hipped to west, having rebuilt brick parapet with granite coping, shouldered rendered chimneystack with clay pots, and parapet gutters. Flemish bond red brick walling, refaced to top floor in English garden wall bond over header course, painted rendered basement with granite plinth course above; rear elevation has render to east bay, and exposed brick to bow. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals, granite sills, brick voussoirs and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to top floor and one-over-one pane elsewhere to front facade; rear elevation has replacement six-over-six pane to top floor, six-over-six pane to upper floors of bow, and round-headed three-over-six pane stairs window and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Round-headed doorcase with barley-sugar-moulded architrave, stylized Ionic columns, fluted frieze with rosettes and cornice, decorative leaded petal fanlight and twelve-panel timber door. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and four steps to street level. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth. Rear of plot has yard shared with No. 63.

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