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Terraced single-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, c.1900, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier outbuilding complex, pre-1840. Renovated and refenestrated. One of a group of six. Pitched (shared) slate roof incorporating gablet to half-dormer attic window with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, timber bargeboards to half-dormer attic window having finial, rooflights, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on eaves. Coursed random rubble stone wall to front (east) elevation probably originally rendered with rendered walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings with sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds, and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening under canopy on iron brackets with red brick block-and-start surround, and replacement glazed timber panelled door. Set back from line of street with rendered boundary wall to forecourt having flat iron gate incorporating twisted finials.

A picturesque small-scale house built as one of a group of six identical units (with 15605254 - 255, 257 - 259) reputedly constructed in three quickly successive phases of two houses each having origins in an earlier outbuilding or stable complex connected with the nearby Rosbercon Castle. Although probably originally concealed, the external expression of the house is enlivened by the rustic textured visual effect produced by the exposed traditional construction in unrefined local fieldstone with red brick accents producing a lively palette: the resulting composition recalls a contemporary (1905) although unlikely related scheme in Bunclody (see 15602034 - 36). Although the subject of a renovation programme at the end of the twentieth century, the house continues to present an early character, thereby upholding some of the integrity of the collective ensemble in the street scene.