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Townhouse with a corner turret above a gable dated 1675. It is a 3-storey, 3-bay house with 2 return bays to Carmelite Street. Harled with ashlar margins and dressings. It has a centre door with single flanking window, three windows in the first floor and two breaking the wallhead under shallow piended dormers. There is a return gable with single ground and first floor windows, two second floor windows and diminutive attic light. Rounded angle to street at ground floor level, at first floor corbelled out to square with small decorative datestone and further corbelled as a round bartizan rising above the wallhead to terminate with conical roof. It has three very small windows close to eaves. There is a 3-bay rear with substantial projecting rubble 4-storey rubble stair tower with chamfered angles corbelled out to square to form 4th storey cap house. Small stair tower windows paired in the west facing the caphouse gable and an apex stack. A doorway in the rear of the house provides access to small rear courtyard with site of well. There is multi-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, substantial coped end stacks, crowstepped gable at the southeast and flat skews elsewhere, a pottery ridge and a slate roof with rooflights. Internally there is an inglenook fireplace on ground floor.
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