Gardiner House — Gardiner Street Lower

Terraced two-bay four-storey house over raised basement, built c.1825, now in commercial office use and interconnected with No.65. M-profile slate roof, hipped to north of rear pitch, hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to south end. Stepped rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to south party wall. Brown brick walls laid in Flemish bond on chamfered granite plinth course over rendered basement wall. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows and wrought-iron window guards to third floor. Gauged brick three-centred-arch door opening with projecting stucco surround and painted masonry Ionic doorcase. Original four-panelled timber door with glazed arched upper panels. Door flanked by engaged fluted Ionic columns on plinth bases supporting panelled lintel cornice with wreath motifs and leaded fanlight over. Door opens onto shared granite platform and five granite steps bridging basement. Platform and basement enclosed by wrought and cast-iron railings set on moulded granite plinth wall. Rear garden enclosed by pebbledashed wall now in use as car park together with No.65, with steel roller shutter.