Heart House

Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former house, built c.1780, now in use as healthcare clinic. M-profile pitched roofs having parapet with granite capping to front (north) elevation. Brown brick chimneystack. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Cut granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings having painted masonry sills. Two-over-two pane timber sash windows to third floor, six-over-six pane timber sash windows to second, first and ground floors. Three-over-three pane timber sash windows to basement. Round-headed door opening having carved door surround with engaged Ionic columns supporting a fluted frieze. Cobweb fanlight. Timber panelled door. Granite steps to entrance platform. Cast-iron railings on granite plinth wall having decorative newel posts. Basement area enclosed from pavement by granite plinth wall with cast-iron railings. Square-headed door opening to basement having recent glazed timber door.

This well proportioned former house makes an important contribution to the streetscape. It shares proportions and details with its neighbours forming a coherent terrace. It retains early fabric including sash windows and door surround. Eccles Street was laid out in 1772 by the Gardiner Estate. It was to be an arterial route leading to Gardiner's ambitious yet unrealised Royal Circus, planned for the north-west end of Eccles Street. The south side of the street is an impressive, almost entirely, late eighteenth-century terrace with taller buildings to the centre of the terrace.