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Detached three-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1850, with lower two-storey single-bay wing to north elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and external louvred shutters. Timber sliding sash windows, square-headed to first floor and tripartite and camber-headed to ground floor, having tooled limestone sills throughout. Round-headed door opening with cut limestone block-and-start surround, timber panelled door with spoked fanlight and flight of cut limestone steps with rendered retaining walls having flat cut limestone copings. Recent wrought-iron pedestrian gate and rubble stone boundary walls to front of site. Set within its own grounds.
This elegant classically proportioned house retains its timber sliding sash windows and cut-stone doorcase. It was later used as a Roman Catholic presbytery.

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