45-47 Normand Road, Dysart

This is a two-storey terrace of houses and flatted dwellings with a corner shop, built in 1898 by J D Swanston. The construction is of rock-faced squared and snecked rubble with contrasting red sandstone ashlar dressings, marked by courses at the base, first floor sill, and eaves. Round-arched openings are a prominent feature, along with moulded arrises and stone mullions.

The East Elevation, on Normand Road, is twelve bays wide, arranged as 4-3-3-2, with a pair of houses at the outer left and the corner shop to the right. Number 41 and 43 have steps leading to a corniced, paired doorway at the centre. The right-hand door retains its original two-leaf panelled timber construction, while the left-hand door is modern but includes a plate glass fanlight. A paired window is located above the doorway. The flanking bays feature full-height, canted tripartite windows with a concave moulded cornice that breaks the eaves and culminates in a finialled polygonal roof. Numbers 45 and 47 have steps up to a round-arched doorway with deep-set doors; the right-hand door (Number 47) has small-pane glazing over vertical panelling. Bipartite windows flank the doorway. A decorative shield panel is situated to the outer left of the cill course. A window is centrally placed on the first floor, flanked by bipartite windows, as in Numbers 45 and 47. Numbers 49 and 51 are similar to Numbers 45 and 47, both having doors like Number 47. The outer right bays have a bipartite window on the left and a smaller window on the right.

The Northeast Elevation, at the corner shop, features a chamfered angle with a corniced doorway at ground level, below a blind, scroll-flanked panel and flanked by round-arched windows – the lower level of which has later stone detailing. A moulded band sits below the first floor sill course, leading to a tripartite window with corniced and finialled dividing pilasters that break the eaves. The windowheads corbel outwards to a polygonal turret roof with a finial.

The North Elevation, on Berwick Place, is two bays wide. The ground floor has a blank bay to the left and a bipartite window to the right. The first floor has a window to the left and a bipartite window to the right, with a stack featuring a moulded right shoulder that breaks the eaves on the outer left.

The West Elevation, on Alexander Street, features an advanced gable to the left with a two-leaf timber door and plate glass fanlight at ground level, flanked by windows. Three irregularly disposed windows are on the first floor. Recessed bays to the right incorporate a variety of elements, including harled stone forestairs and projecting catslide-roofed bays. Most windows have a six-pane glazing pattern to the upper sashes over two-pane lower in timber sash and case style, with a few exceptions: Numbers 41 and 43 have uPVC glazing. The roof is covered in grey slates. The building has coped ashlar stacks with cans and ashlar-coped skews with mitre skewputts, along with deeply overhanging eaves and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings. Low saddleback-coped rubble boundary walls are present to the east, while semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls mark the west boundary.