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Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1830 as one of pair with No. 45, with two and three-storey return to west end of rear. Now in office use. M-profile pitched slate roof, having brick parapet with granite coping and parapet gutters, cornice and platband. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to east with yellow clay pots. Replacement uPVC hopper and downpipe. Flemish bond red brick walling to upper floors, rusticated granite walling to ground floor with projecting granite course above and below, over painted smooth rendered basement walling; brick to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals and painted masonry sills. Timber sliding sash windows with convex horns, six-over-six pane to second floor, three-over-three pane to top floor with profiled horns, and one-over-one pane elsewhere. Wrought-iron window-guards to second floor and steel grille to basement. Apparently timber sash windows to rear. Round-headed doorcase with moulded surround, pro-style fluted Doric columns, plain entablature, plain fanlight and eleven-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with ornate cast-iron boot-scrape and six bull-nosed steps to street. Decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area, with cast-iron gate. Yard to rear, and continuous buildings beyond to rear of plot.

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