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Attached two-bay two-storey over concealed basement former house, built c. 1750, with timber shopfront inserted to ground floor c. 1900. Currently disused. Hipped slate roof to front, gabled to rear section with central shouldered rendered chimneystack having lipped clay pots to centre. Roof hidden behind lead-lined front parapet wall with cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to east end. Painted rendered walls with recessed panel to the first floor and deep moulded crown cornice. Square-headed window openings with late nineteenth or early twentieth-century single-pane timber sash windows with ogee horns and historic glass. Symmetrical timber shopfront, c. 1900, with two large display windows and central recessed glazed timber door having mosaic tiled threshold, all framed by part-fluted pilasters with fluted brackets flanking glazed fascia with gilt lettering; '136 BROOKS & CO. 136’, and lead-lined hood cornice. Etched glazed screen encloses display windows to interior. Door opens directly onto street with cast-iron glazed basement light and granite surround.
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