house — Gardiner Street Upper

Terraced four-storey house over raised basement, built c.1820, having three-bay ground floor and two-bay upper floors. Pitched slate T-plan roof, gabled to rear, with yellow brick stepped chimneystack and replacement terracotta chimney pots shared with No. 39 to north and canted yellow brick chimneystack abutting rear gable. Original flared lead hopper and downpipe breaking through front parapet wall shared with No. 37 to south. Red brick walls rebuilt at third floor level and laid in Flemish bond to painted granite plinth course above rendered basement wall. Painted statue of Virgin Mary on projecting concrete render plinth to first floor at party wall to north. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings, with painted patent reveals and painted granite sills, and timber sliding sash windows, one-over-one pane to ground floor, nine-over-six pane to first floor, six-over-six pane to second floor and basement, and three-over-three pane to top floor. Square-headed openings to rear with timber sliding sash windows of varying configurations and stair hall window opening modified. Round-headed door opening with painted stone doorcase comprising engaged Doric columns set on granite base with paterae and fluting to capitals, cornice and archivolt. Replacement timber door and plain fanlight. Door opens onto mosaic-covered platform with wrought-iron bootscraper and mosaic covered steps shared with No. 37 to south, enclosed by wrought-iron railings on painted granite plinth wall with cast-iron corner post returning to north to enclose basement area. Rear elevation laid in yellow brick in English garden wall bond with pitched parapet wall and projecting canted chimney breast.