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Terraced two-pile three-storey house over raised basement, built 1792 as one of twenty-five, having three-bay ground floor and two-bay upper floors, with single-storey return to west end of rear. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to east end of rear pile, having rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to west end, hidden behind rendered parapet having moulded render cornice, and eaves course, and with pitched roof to return. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with cut masonry plinth course above basement. Square-headed window openings with plain surrounds, masonry sills and timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane below, front and rear. Segmental-headed doorway with carved timber doorcase comprising plain pilasters with foliate brackets, moulded cornice and replacement fanlight and timber panelled door, approached by two granite steps and tiled platform with wrought-iron and decorative cast-iron railings. carparking to former front garden; decorative cast-iron railings on carved limestone plinth wall to boundaries with neighbouring properties. Garden to rear.

This house is part of a significant architectural set-piece, Marino Crescent, one of the few Georgian crescents in the city. The classically restrained façade is ornamented with a rendered parapet and eaves course and well-executed doorcase. The crescent comprises houses with similar parapet heights and fenestration patterns, with larger houses to the centre and west end. The railings provide a sense of enclosure marking out the private area associated with the house. The houses were built in the last decade of the eighteenth century to take advantage of the sea views, prior to land reclamation projects associated with the enlargement of Dublin Port. The houses were built by Charles ffolliot, reputedly to spite Lord Charlemont, blocking the vista from Marino House, and were locally known as Spite Crescent as a result.