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Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1880, with single-bay return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with red brick chimneystack with stepped cornice and polygonal terracotta pots, cast-iron rainwater goods, and yellow brick cogging eaves course. Red brick walls to front, laid in Flemish bond, with chamfered sandstone plinth, and having yellow brick block-and-start starts to openings. Smooth rendered walls to rear elevations. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, and sandstone sills. Round-arch door opening with timber panelled door with 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, and square-headed openings. House constitutes one of a terrace of four largely identical houses.

This fine terraced house of red brick forms part of an impressive terrace of similar houses. The terrace is a fine example of the type of housing built beyond the immediate centre of Victorian towns around the turn of the nineteenth century and survives in very good condition. 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.