house — Gardiner Street Upper

Terraced two-bay three-storey house over raised basement, built c.1870, having two-storey return to rear. M-profile pitched slate roof having dentillated red brick eaves course, cast-iron ogee gutter and red brick chimneystack with decorative tile to front face and copper flashing. Flemish bond red brick walls having polychromatic brick embellishments to heads of openings and to eaves, chamfered masonry plinth course, stone platband to first floor sill level and yellow brick course to second floor sill level. Dressed yellow sandstone sill bands to first and second floors and later decorative render and tile crest to ground floor. Diminishing slightly camber-headed window openings with gauged polychrome brick voussoirs, chamfered reveals, stone sills and replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, and segmental-arched window opening to basement level having gauged polychrome brick voussoirs, stone sill and six-over-three pane window. Round-headed door opening within recessed red and polychrome brick surround, having chamfered recessed reveals. Timber panelled door with historic cast-iron fittings surmounted by single-pane fanlight and dentillated frieze. Door opening onto rendered platform with stepped approach flanked by cast-iron hand rails. Set back from Gardiner Street front with enclosed garden with decorative wrought-iron railings on stone plinths with red brick terminal piers. Single-leaf wrought-iron decorative entrance gate springing from square-profile red brick gate piers with masonry capping.