house — Gardiner Place

Terraced four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1790, with three-bay ground floor and two-bay upper floors. Now in multiple occupancy. M-profile pitched roof hipped to west with two cement rendered chimneys having terracotta pots shared on party wall with No. 9 to east behind granite-capped parapet. Red brick wall laid in Flemish bond with replacement brick to third floor laid in English bond to granite plinth course over ruled-and-lined rendered painted basement. Gauged brick square-headed window openings with painted patent reveals and granite sills throughout. Replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns to ground second and basement levels, nine-over-six pane to first floor, and three-over-three pane to top floor. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows. Gauged brick segmental-headed recessed door opening with concave fluted moulded archivolt and Portland stone Ionic doorcase with engaged columns and responding pilasters flanking narrow replacement sidelights. Stepped lintel cornice with fluting and paterae enrichment supporting replacement spoked fanlight. Original ten-panel timber 'Dublin' door opens onto granite platform and five granite steps shared with No. 7 to west and flanked by decorative bulbous cast-iron railings on ornate moulded granite plinth curving to east to enclose basement area accessed by matching gate and concrete steps. Sheeted painted timber door under platform to basement. Ruled-and-lined cement rendered rear elevation with replacement timber sliding sash windows having same arrangement as front elevation, and having round-headed nine-over-six pane stair window. Concrete paved path with granite kerbing and two coal hole covers set in granite slabs.