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Beastly house by end of esplanade that's an eyesore (4)

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I believe the answer is:

stye

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'an eyesore' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'beastly house by end of esplanade' is the wordplay.
'beastly house' becomes 'sty' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'end of' suggests the final letters.
The last letter of 'esplanade' is 'e'.
'sty'+'e'='STYE'

'that's' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for stye that I've seen before include "producing eyesore" , "irritation to the viewer" , "Climb" , "Inflamed swelling on the edge of an eyelid" , "Eye sore" .)

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