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Carmel House — Gardiner Street Upper

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Carmel House — Gardiner Street Upper
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Terraced two-bay four-storey house over raised basement, built c.1805, as one of pair. Now in use as guest house. M-plan slate roof hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping. Shared rendered chimneystack with clay pots to north party wall. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls to painted masonry plinth course above ruled-and-lined rendered basement. Square-headed window openings with flush rendered reveals, painted stone sills and replacement aluminium windows. Round-headed door opening with tripartite painted masonry Ionic doorcase, with replacement hardwood panelled door flanked by engaged Ionic columns on plinth bases, and with original decorative tracery sidelights, surmounted by fluted and stepped lintel cornice with original peacock fanlight. Door opens onto terrazzo paved platform and five terrazzo steps bridging basement area. Platform and basement area enclosed by original wrought-iron railing and cast-iron corner posts on concrete plinth wall.

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