house — Gardiner Row

Terraced four-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1765, with full-height bow and two-storey over basement brick return. Renovated and restored c.2006, for use as offices with glass lift core abutting rear elevation. Roof hidden behind rebuilt parapet wall with concrete coping and replacement iron rainwater goods breaking through parapet. Yellow brick stepped chimneystack to south party wall with clay pots. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with top floor wall built in machine-cut red bricks laid in stretcher bond. Moulded granite plinth course over painted rendered walls to basement level. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with granite sills, patent rendered reveals and replacement timber sliding sash windows throughout with ogee horns (concrete sills to third floor), nine-over-six pane to ground and first floors, six-over-six pane to second floor and three-over-three pane to top floor. Round-headed door opening with pedimented Portland limestone Doric doorcase. Nineteenth-century timber panelled door with twelve raised-and-fielded panels flanked by engaged and advanced Doric columns on plinth bases to entablature blocks supporting open pediment housing replacement decorative leaded fanlight with moulded surround and set on lintel cornice. Door opens onto granite platform, bridging basement area, and four granite steps enclosed by wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth wall terminated by pair of replacement decorative iron piers supporting decorative iron lantern arch. Basement enclosed by original wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth wall with matching gate providing access to a concrete stairs to basement area, and has stone-flag paving. Interior recently refurbished with Rococo plasterwork to stair hall, ground floor bowed room and rear first floor room. Mostly intact joinery to window and door linings including lugged architrave surrounds.