house — Gardiner Street Upper

Terraced two-bay three-storey house over raised basement, built c.1860, having later two-storey return to rear. M-profile pitched slate roof with dentilated eaves course, cast-iron ogee gutters and downpipe. Red brick chimneystack with polychrome courses, decorative tile to front face, copper flashing and ceramic octagonal chimney pots. Flemish bond red brick walls having polychromatic brick to eaves and heads of openings, stone platband to first floor sill level, yellow brick band to second floor sill level, and chamfered masonry plinth course. Decorative render crest to right-hand side of door, at window head height. Diminishing square-headed window openings with gauged polychrome brick voussoirs, chamfered reveals, granite sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, and segmental-arched window opening to basement level having similar details and six-over-three pane window. Round-headed door opening within recessed red and polychrome brick surround, having chamfered reveals, with timber panelled door with iron fittings, surmounted by dentillated frieze and plain fanlight. Door opening onto rendered platform with cast-iron bootscraper, spanning basement area, having stepped approach flanked by cast-iron hand rails with leaf motif. Set back from Gardiner Street with enclosed garden and concreted forecourt having decorative cast-iron railings on rounded granite plinth. Entrance pier and railings partially removed to accommodate recent double-leaf metal gates and driveway access. Brick boundary wall to boundary with No. 19, having squared granite capping.