house — Gardiner Row

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basements, built c.1765, now forming hotel along with No. 4 and Nos. 1-2 Gardiner Row and No. 2 North Frederick Street. Roof hidden behind rebuilt brick parapet wall with granite coping and single rebuilt chimneystack to party wall. Replacement hopper and downpipe on party line breaking through parapet wall. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with red brick repairs on moulded granite plinth course, with rendered basement walls. Rebuilt gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to lower two floors and replacement uPVC windows to top two floors. Pedimented painted stone doorcase, similar to that of No. 4, but no longer in use, and comprising round-headed door opening with moulded masonry surround and original timber panelled door with six raised-and-fielded panels flanked by rusticated quoined pilasters and stepped lintel cornice, and with scrolled console brackets supporting open pediment housing plain fanlight. Basement area built over and railing on plinth wall crossing former stepped platform. Basement area enclosed by original wrought-iron railing on raised painted moulded granite plinth wall with matching gate and concrete steps. House retains good interior with open-well timber staircases at centre of plan, top-lit and of very generous scale with most original joinery and plasterwork intact.