house — Marino Crescent

Terraced two-pile three-storey house over raised basement, built 1792 as one of twenty-five, with three-bay ground floor and two-bay upper floors, and with two-storey return to rear (north) elevation. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to east end, with terracotta ridge tiles, shared rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to west end, hidden behind rendered parapet having moulded render cornice, and eaves course, and with lean-to roof to return. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls and cut masonry plinth course above basement. Square-headed window openings with masonry sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to upper floors of front and replacement timber windows to basement, round-headed one-over-one pane stairs window to rear, and apparently replacement elsewhere. Round-headed doorway with render doorcase comprising panelled pilasters supporting fluted frieze and plain fanlight with moulded render surround on scrolled brackets, with replacement timber door, approached by flight of four granite steps having cast-iron bootscrape to platform, and wrought-iron railings. Garden to front, bounded to footpath by decorative cast-iron single-leaf gate with matching railings on carved limestone plinth wall.