Gaslight Row

About this pack

Gaslight Row builds a terrace under smoke. Deep red brick sits in pale lime mortar, and a second course is darkened with soot and crossed by a broad cream painted string course. Rounded granite street setts come bare or with damp green moss worked into the joints. Plain soot-grey granite, polished black slate with a cold sheen, warm ochre firebrick and cream painted stucco cracked with fine hairlines carry the structure. Warm honey parquet laid in a tight herringbone pairs with dark stained boards, a black cast-iron column with broad vertical fluting and a bolt strip down each edge, and its circular cap plate riveted around the rim. A shelf of leather-bound ledgers, brass instruments and a glass bell jar, cream damask wallpaper, a black painted iron plate and clipped lawn with small white clover finish the set. This is surface artwork only: no gaslight is lit here, nothing glows and no block behaves differently.