house — Gardiner Place

Terraced four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1800, built as one of pair and having three-bay ground floor and two-bay upper floors. Recently restored. M-profile slate roof, gabled to rear behind parapet wall with granite coping. Shared stepped rendered chimneystack to east party wall and angled chimneystack abutting rear elevation, all having clay pots. Tinted red brick walls laid in Flemish bond, recently re-pointed with lime. Moulded granite plinth course above rendered basement wall. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with replacement twentieth-century timber sliding sash windows, one-over-one pane to lower two floors and two-over-two pane to upper two floors. Red brick walls to rear elevation with largely six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows including round-headed sashes to half-landings. Gauged brick round-headed front door opening with painted stone tripartite Ionic doorcase. Nineteenth-century timber panelled door with bolection mouldings and brass furniture flanked by engaged Ionic columns, plain sidelights and responding quarter engaged pilasters supporting embellished stepped lintel cornice and plain fanlight. Door opens onto shared granite platform, bridging basement area and three granite steps. Platform and basement area enclosed by iron railing on moulded granite plinth wall with iron gate and steel steps to basement area.