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The Town House/Globetrotters Accommodation — Gardiner Street Lower

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The Town House/Globetrotters Accommodation — Gardiner Street Lower
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Terraced two-bay four-storey house over raised basement, built c.1825, now in use as guesthouse, together with Nos. 47 and 46. M-profile slate roof hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping. Stepped brick chimneystacks with clay pots to south party wall. Cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through at third floor sill level. Brown brick walls laid in Flemish bond with original lime pointing, rebuilt to top floor, set on chamfered granite plinth course over rendered basement wall. Yellow brick walls to rear elevation laid in English garden wall bond. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement uPVC windows to second and third floors, replacement timber sliding sash windows to remainder. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with projecting stucco surround and painted masonry Ionic doorcase. Original timber door with eleven raised-and-fielded panels flanked by engaged Ionic columns on plinth bases supporting panelled lintel cornice and original petal fanlight over. Door opens onto sandstone paved platform with cast-iron bootscraper and six granite steps bridging basement. Platform and basement enclosed by decorative wrought-iron railings set on moulded granite plinth wall with matching gate and further railings dividing platform and steps from adjoining house. Recent four-storey brick apartment development to rear site, accessed off Beresford Lane.

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