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Terrace of four two-bay two-storey houses, built c.1870, having two-storey returns to rear (south-west) elevation, and attached at either end to neighbouring terraces. M-profile pitched slate roofs, partly hipped to rear pile, having cast-iron rainwater goods. Polychrome red and yellow brick chimneystacks on party walls. Brick coping to polychrome parapet. Red brick walls to front (north-east) elevation, laid in Flemish bond with yellow brick string course, and polychrome brickwork. Square-headed window openings with polychrome red and yellow brick surrounds and cut granite sills. One-over-one pane timber sash windows to no.51 and no.52. Replacement uPVC windows to no.49 and no.50. Round-headed recessed door openings, each having red and yellow brick voussoirs, and chamfered reveals. Timber panelled door, plain fanlight, carved timber cornice to lintel. Granite step, shared granite platform to each pair. Poured concrete path to no.49 and no.50, paved path to no.51 and no.52, having granite steps, cast-iron pedestrian gates, rendered piers and boundary walls.

No.49 to no.52 Aughrim Street lie in the middle of a terrace of twenty-one two-bay two-storey terraced houses, all sharing a similar parapet height, with front gardens and separated by shared paths. The diminishing windows and symmetrical fenestration create a well-proportioned façade, with paired door openings, the simple form enhanced by highly decorative brickwork. Griffith’s Valuation of 1854 lists no.33 to no.108 as building ground. The Dublin Street Directory of 1862 lists no.32 to no.116 Aughrim Street as Finea Terrace, Kincaid Terrace, Stuart Terrace and building ground, and the 1874 Thom’s Directory identifies no.49 to no.52 Aughrim Street as part of Auburn Hill terrace.