house — Gardiner Street Upper

Corner-sited two-bay four-storey house over raised basement, built c.1820. Now in office use. Double-pile slate roof, gabled to rear and set behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping. Shared stepped and rendered chimneystack to south party wall and angled yellow brick chimneystack abutting rear elevation, all having clay pots. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond on painted granite plinth course above rendered basement wall. Yellow brick walls to rear (east) elevation. Ruled-and-lined rendered wall to north side elevation fronting onto Lower Dorset Street. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings, patent rendered reveals, painted masonry sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows throughout, tripartite six-over-six pane to ground floor, nine-over-six pane to first floor, six-over-six pane to second floor, and timber casement windows to other levels. Wrought-iron window guards to second floor and to first floor of rear elevation. Round-headed door opening formed in brick with projecting moulded masonry surround and advanced painted masonry Ionic doorcase, having replacement twelve-panel timber door flanked by advanced Ionic columns supporting large lintel cornice with plain fanlight. Door opens onto granite paved platform bridging basement area, having partial wrought-iron bootscraper and enclosed by original wrought-iron railings opening onto pavement via four granite steps. Basement area to front and side (north) elevation enclosed by wrought-iron railing on painted moulded granite plinth wall with ornate cast-iron corner posts. North side elevation abutted by lean-to at basement level.