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Terraced two-pile three-storey house over raised basement, built 1792 as one of twenty-five, having three-bay ground floor and two-bay upper floors, and rear having two-bay bow to east end and single-storey return to west. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to west end of rear pile, having rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to east end, hidden behind rendered parapet having moulded render cornice, and eaves course, and with return has hipped roof. Ruled-and-lined rendered walling with cut masonry plinth course above rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings with masonry sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane below to front and rear, with round-headed stairs window to rear. Elliptical-headed doorway with moulded render surround, carved timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters with fluted brackets, supporting panelled frieze, stepped timber cornice and teardrop fanlight, and timber panelled door, approached by two granite steps and platform with cast-iron railings. Cast-iron railings on concrete plinth wall to basement area. Garden and driveway to front, bounded by decorative cast-iron railings on carved limestone plinth wall to east and west and partly by same to footpath, with decorative cast-iron vehicular gate. Garden to rear. Birthplace of Bram Stoker, world-renowned author of 'Dracula'.

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