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Semi-detached two-bay two-storey house, built c.1910, with canted bay window to ground floor and extension to rear. Abutting detached house to west. Set back from the road. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting, rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined render to ground floor with moulded string course separating ground and first floor, roughcast render to first floor. Timber sash windows with rendered surrounds and decorative keystone and tooled stone sills, canted bay window to ground floor. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door with stained glass panels, stained glass fanlight, flanked by fluted stucco pilasters, archivolt with keystone to fanlight. Front site bounded by rendered plinth wall surmounted by cast-iron railings accessed through square-profile gate piers with cut stone caps and wrought-iron gate.

This house forms one of a pair of group of similar semi-detached houses erected on John's Place and John's Terrace. Retaining their structural and decorative features, they play a part in enhancing Birr's architectural heritage. Notable elements found in this example, and repeated along the street, include timber sash windows with the irregular glazing bar design as well as the canted bay window found on the ground floor. Another attractive feature belonging to this structure is the wrought-iron gate which contrasts with the cast-iron railings that bound the front site.