house — Gardiner Place

Terraced four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1790, having three-bay ground floor and two-bay first floor. Now in multiple occupancy. M-profile pitched roof with shared cement rendered chimneystack on party wall with No. 8 to west and single chimneystack on party wall with No. 10 to east. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to ground, first and second floors, early replacement red brick to lower half of third floor and later replacement red brick to upper section with granite-capped parapet. Ruled-and-lined rendered basement below painted granite plinth course. Gauged brick square-headed window openings with painted patent reveals and painted granite sills with replacement timber sliding sash windows throughout, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere, those to basement having steel guard bars. Mainly six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to rear, with two round-headed windows to stairs, and with replacement uPVC widows to top floor. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with painted stone door surround having cove scalloped archivolt. Engaged Ionic columns flanked by responding pilasters enclosing blocked up narrow sidelights. Stepped lintel and cornice with cornice enriched with paterae and fluting with plain fanlight. Ten-panel 'Dublin' door opens onto granite platform and three round-nosed granite steps bridging basement and flanked by painted wrought-iron railings on moulded painted granite plinth wall returning to west to enclose basement area, having matching gate. Basement area accessed by replacement steel steps and separated from No. 10 to west by granite-capped masonry wall. Concrete paved path with granite kerbing, two coal hole covers set in granite slabs, and decorative lamp post to east of building.