41 Normand Road, Dysart

1898 by J D Swanston, Architect. Two storey terrace of houses and flatted dwellings, and corner shop with polygonal turret roof. Rock-faced squared and snecked rubble with contrasting red sandstone ashlar dressings. Base, first floor cill, and eaves courses. Round-arched openings; moulded arrises and stone mullions.

East Elevation (NORMAND ROAD) : 12-bay (grouped 4-3-3-2) elevation with pair of houses to outer left and corner shop (see below) to right. Nos 41 & 43: steps up to corniced, paired doorway at centre with original two-leaf panelled timber to right (No 43), and modern timber door to left (No 41), both with plate glass fanlight; paired window above. Flanking bays with full-height canted tripartite window with concave moulded cornice breaking eaves into finialled polygonal roof Nos 45 & 47: centre bay with steps up to round-arched doorway with deep-set doors, that to right (No 47) with small-pane glazing over vertical panelling, bipartite windows in flanking bays; decorative shield panel to outer left of cill course, window to centre at first floor and bipartite windows in flanking bays. Nos 49 & 51: as Nos 45 & 47, with both doors as No 47. Outer right bays with bipartite window to left and smaller window to right.

Northeast Elevation (CORNER SHOP): chamfered angle with corniced door at ground below blind, scroll-flanked panel, and flanking round-arched windows (with later stone detailing at lower level); moulded band below first floor cill course giving way to tripartite window with corniced and finialled dividing pilasters breaking eaves, windowheads corbelled to polygonal turret roof with finial.

North Elevation (BERWICK PLACE): Two bay elevation, ground floor with blank bay to left and bipartite window to right, first floor with window bipartite window to right, window to left and stack with moulded right shoulder breaking eaves to outer left.

West Elevation (ALEXANDER STREET) : advanced gable to left with two-leaf timber door and plate glass fanlight to centre at ground, windows in flanking bays, and three irregularly disposed windows at first floor. Recessed bays to right with variety of elements including harled stone forestairs and projecting catslide-roofed bays. Six-pane glazing pattern to upper sashes over two-pane lower in timber sash and case windows, except to Nos 41 & 43 with uPVC glazing. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with cans and ashlar-coped skews with mitre skewputts; deeply overhanging eaves; cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings. BOUNDARY WALLS: low saddleback-coped rubble boundary walls to east; semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls to west.