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The Glen — Gardiner Street Lower

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The Glen — Gardiner Street Lower
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Terraced two-bay four-storey house over raised basement, built c.1820, now in use as guesthouse. M-profile slate roof with rebuilt rendered chimneystack having clay pots to front and rear, along boundary with No. 84. Replacement hopper breaking through granite-capped parapet wall with replacement uPVC downpipe to north. Yellow brick walls laid in Flemish bond to painted, chamfered granite plinth course above lined-and-ruled rendered basement wall. Diminishing gauged flat-arched window openings with painted patent reveals, painted granite sills and replacement timber sash windows, three-over-three pane to third floor and basement, and six-over-six to ground, first and second floors. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows. Gauged brick round-headed door opening having moulded reveal and painted stone Ionic doorcase. Engaged columns with fluted frieze flanking painted timber replacement door with stained-glass fanlight above, bearing legend 'The Glen'. Door opens onto granite platform and three granite steps bridging basement. Wrought-iron railings flank platform to north and return on painted granite plinth wall to enclose basement area. Replacement railing divides platform. Squared granite coping over party wall to basement area shared with No. 85. Large five-storey apartment block fronting Mabbot Lane occupies much of site to rear.

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