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Semi-detached two-storey house, built 1925 as part of group of ten, comprising three-bay ground floor and two-bay first floor, with hipped roof single-storey addition to south end. Recent extension to rear. Rosemary-tiled hipped roofs with vertically incised chimneystacks having flat caps and simple pots; deeply projecting sheeted eaves with cast-iron ogee-profile rainwater goods. Painted roughcast walling over painted smooth rendered plinth course with tile stringcourse between floors. Square-headed window openings with small-pane timber casement windows; square in shape to ground floor, diminutive four-pane to outer bay and double eight-pane to inner bay; ribbon-like windows to first floor, tucked under eaves, double six-pane window to inner bay and quadruple four-pane to outer bay, all with terracotta tiled sills. Square-headed doorway with brown brick surround and having ogee-moulded masonry canopy supported on scrolled brackets, timber panelled door with nine-pane stained-glass upper part, middle panes narrower than outer panes, accessed by single granite step. Set back from road with shared front gardens enclosed by roughcast dwarf walls with granite copings supporting metal railings, shared central pedestrian gate (gate itself gone), and vehicular gateway to outer end lacking gate. Rear garden enclosed by roughcast wall with granite coping.

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