128 St. Paul Street



1½ storey, (cleaned) red-brick Victorian house with bay-window at front gable, buff-brick trim and articulated quoins, and fine replacement gingerbread (c. 1880 – see also no. 136).

Description – House has bevelled, buff-brick plinth over local-stone foundation, with raised, buff-brick quoins, each separated by one course of red bricks. Masonry is load-bearing, hand-made brick with headers every sixth course. Front door is within (recent) enclosed porch, built off projecting concrete slab, with old, half-glazed and panelled door tall, single-pane side-lights. Windows are all replacement, square-headed, 1/1 built into original cases, and with wooden sills. Projecting, buff-brick voussoirs drop at jambs to stepped corbelling. Small window above (set into deep metal flashing) is within small gable having ornamented King-post truss with pendant finial, and filigree in spandrels. Gabled wing to RH side has ground-floor bay window with fenestration and window heads as elsewhere, and double-course of buff-brick below wooden moulding at narrow eaves. (At north wall, ground floor, floor is buff-brick bay window with leaded transom windows at all three sides.) Second floor of gable has typical replacement windows and trim. Gable masonry has lozenge of buff-brick headers, with geometrical lobes at corners, and is trimmed with deep wooden fascia adjacent beaded soffit boards. Fine (replacement) gingerbread at eaves comprises simple swags with flower-type cusps between and at base, and flat pendant finial at apex, with star above. Roof is clad in rustic, brown, asphalt shingles, with corbelled, dog-toothed, chimney beyond peak.



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