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Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1880, with single-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with polychromatic chimneystacks with stepped cornice and polygonal terracotta pots, cast-iron rainwater goods, and yellow brick cogging eaves-course. Red brick walling to front elevation, laid in Flemish bond, with chamfered sandstone plinth, and with yellow brick block-and-start quoins and surrounds to openings. Smooth rendered walls to rear elevations. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, and sandstone sills. Round-arched door opening with timber panelled door having spoked timber fanlight, and sandstone threshold. Set back from street with garden to front with boundary demarcation comprising saddle-back stone plinth surmounted by railings of cast and wrought iron. Terrace of two-storey outbuildings to rear having pitched natural slate roof, smooth rendered random rubble walls, with square-headed openings. House constitutes one of a terrace of four largely identical houses.

This fine terraced house of red brick, is part of an impressive terrace of similar buiildings. The terrace is an excellent example of the type of housing built beyond the immediate centre of Victorian towns around the turn of the nineteenth century. The use of polychromatic brickwork adds a degree of contrast and artistic embellishment to a building built for practicality and to alleviate the overcrowding of town centres during this period. The small front garden, with good cast-iron railings, provides a pleasant setting.