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Attached two-bay and three-bay three-storey former houses over basements, built 1830, as pair. Now in use as apartments. Single-storey bays to side(north and south) elevation. Rear return to side bay to south. M-profile hipped slate roof to house concealed by rendered parapet having granite coping with stucco scrolls having anthropomorphic and foliate decoration, render pediment to centre bay. Rendered chimneystacks with clay pots. Hipped slate roof to side bays, that to south having red brick chimneystack. Rendered walls. Commemorative plaque to wall to south bay. Render pilasters to second floor, moulded masonry cornices. Ionic pilasters and entablature to ground floor, stone plinth course over basement. Round-headed niche with stone sill to ground floor. Square-headed window openings having moulded render surrounds, those to first floor with pediments and cornices over scrolled consoles, those to ground floor having stone sills. Continuous masonry sill course to first and second floor window openings. Round-headed window opening to rear. Replacement windows throughout. Elliptical-headed door openings with moulded render surrounds, doorcases comprising panelled pilasters having foliate decoration supporting panelled cornices. Leaded fanlights. Timber panelled doors and granite steps. Square-headed door opening to return. Wrought-iron gates and matching railings set on granite plinth wall fronting site.

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