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Glendower House — Newtownpark Avenue

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Glendower House — Newtownpark Avenue
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Detached five-bay two-storey house, extant 1837, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay two-storey side elevations. "Improved", pre-1908, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Refenestrated. Hipped slate roof behind parapet with ridge tiles, paired rendered "wallhead" chimney stacks to rear (north) elevation having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and concealed rainwater goods. Rendered channelled walls (ground floor) on rendered chamfered plinth with thumbnail beaded cornice on blind frieze on stringcourse; rendered surface finish (first floor) with rendered channelled piers to corners supporting "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice on blind frieze on entablature below balustraded parapet. Square-headed central door opening (porch) with Composite columns on plinths framing timber door having sidelights below overlights. Round-headed door opening into house, cut-granite block-and-start surround supporting "Cavetto" cornice framing timber door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-granite sills on consoles, and moulded rendered surrounds having bull nose-detailed reveals framing replacement one-over-one uPVC sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with thumbnail beaded sill course, and "Acroterion"-detailed moulded rendered lugged surrounds having concave reveals framing replacement one-over-one uPVC sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

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