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Terraced three-bay four-storey house with dormer attic, c.1800, with square-headed carriageway to right ground floor. Extensively renovated, c.1875, with shared shopfront inserted to ground floor (incorporating carriageway), and façade enrichments added to accommodate commercial use. Extensively renovated, c.2000, with roof remodelled. Pitched roof remodelled, c.2000, with artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, and square rooflights. Painted rendered walls with rendered courses, c.1875, to each floor, ‘Guilloche’ frieze, and moulded cornice on consoles. Square-headed window openings with moulded rendered sills, c.1875, forming sill courses, and moulded rendered shouldered surrounds. Replacement timber casement windows, c.2000. Shared timber shopfront, c.1875, to ground floor with paired fluted Ionic pilasters on pedestals having Corinthian capitals, fixed-pane (two-light) timber display windows, timber panelled double doors to carriageway having overpanel, and timber fascia over with moulded cornice having cast-iron cresting. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A well-appointed, substantial house that retains most of its original form and massing, despite extensive renovation works undertaken in the course of converting the site entirely to commercial use. However, the profile of the remodelled roof is not a positive aspect of the composition. Fine rendered detailing throughout enhances the design quality of the composition, and is indicative of high quality craftsmanship, while a shared timber shopfront of artistic quality augments the visual appeal of the site at street level. The house, together with the remainder of the buildings comprising the Granville House (22501077, 78, 79, 2997/WD-5632-21-77, 78, 79, 2997), forms part of a landmark site that contributes significantly to the visual appeal of the street scene.