house — Gardiner Street Upper

Terraced two-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1805. Now in multiple occupancy. Double-pile slate roof, gabled to rear, hidden behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through parapet to north. Brick and rendered chimneystack with clay pots to north party wall with further angled chimneystack abutting rear elevation. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond, rebuilt to third floor, on painted granite plinth course above rendered basement wall. Red brick walls to rear elevation laid in English garden wall bond and cement rendered to top floor. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings (steel lintels to second and third floors) with flush rendered reveals, painted masonry sills and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Wrought-iron balconettes to first floor openings. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with painted masonry Ionic doorcase, having slender sidelights, one with intact tracery, responding pilasters on shared plinth bases, and original flat-panelled timber door with some beading, supporting swagged stepped lintel cornice and plain fanlight. Door opens onto sloping granite platform and three granite steps bridging basement area, enclosed by original wrought-iron railings on granite plinth wall. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railing on painted moulded granite plinth wall with matching gate and concrete steps to basement area. Square-headed door opening at basement level with timber battened door.