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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 No.46 and 48. M-profile slate roof hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping. Rebuilt brick chimneystacks with clay pots to north party wall. Brown brick walls laid in Flemish bond with original lime pointing, re-pointed in cement to upper two floors, 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. Replacement hardwood sash and casement windows to rear elevation. 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 plain glazed fanlight over. Door opens onto granite paved platform and five granite steps bridging basement. Platform and basement enclosed by wrought-iron railings set on moulded granite plinth wall with matching gate and further railings dividing platform and steps from adjoining house. Cast-iron corner posts replaced by modern steel lamp standards. Recent four-storey brick apartment development to rear site spanning sites of four former coach houses, accessed off Beresford Lane.

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