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Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1810 as one of pair with No. 6, and having single-storey pitched roof return to rear. Now in office use. M-Profile pitched slate roof, hipped to west end of rear span, with rendered chimneystacks to party walls, and roof concealed by brick parapet with granite coping. Wigged red brick walling laid in Flemish bond on granite plinth course over painted rendered basement walling; rendered walling to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with masonry sills, rendered reveals and brick voussoirs. Timber sliding sash windows, replacement one-over-one pane to ground and first floors and replacement three-over-three pane to top floor, all with ogee horns, and six-over-six pane to second floor and four-over-four pane to basement, without horns. Wrought-iron grille to basement window. Apparently timber sash windows to rear elevation. Round-headed door opening with moulded surround and painted masonry doorcase comprising Ionic columns supporting fluted entablature with rosettes, plain fanlight and eight-panel timber door. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape, with two granite steps to street. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth. Painted concrete steps to basement, with recent door with canopy under platform. Two-storey block to rear of plot, shared with No. 6, built 1953.

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