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Attached two-bay three-storey former house over basement, built c. 1836 as one in terrace of ten (Nos. 1-10), having two and three-storey return to west end of rear. Now in use as apartments. M-profile pitched slate roof, rear span slightly higher than front and hipped to west end, brick parapet with granite coping, rendered chimneystacks to east, and concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond red brick walling with rusticated stone quoins to east end on painted granite plinth course over painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling; rendered walling to rear. Square-headed window openings having painted masonry sills, painted rendered reveals and brick voussoirs. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to top floor, with ogee horns, replacement side-hinged timber casements to ground and first floors with overlights, and multiple-pane metal casements to basement. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor openings and steel grille to basement. Apparently replacement windows to rear. Round-headed door opening with moulded surround and painted masonry doorcase having engaged fluted Doric columns, plain entablature, peacock's tail fanlight and four-panel bolection-moulded timber door with beaded muntin and replacement brass furniture. Shared sandstone-paved entrance platform with two stages of three and seven granite steps, with decorative cast-iron boot-scrape and flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth. Decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings to front boundary on moulded granite plinth. Yard and modernized two-storey rubble stone mews building to rear of plot.

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