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Terraced two-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c. 1875 as one of terrace of four, having return to rear (north) elevation. M-profile pitched roof, hipped to west end with red brick chimneystacks having clay pots to east end, hidden behind moulded granite cornice and granite eaves course. Rendered walls with granite quoins to east end, over cut masonry plinth course with channelled rendered walls to basement; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings with raised render surrounds, granite sills and replacement uPVC sliding sash windows. Round-headed principal doorway with rendered rope- moulded reveals, carved timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters with scrolled brackets supporting dentillated timber frieze and plain fanlight, and with timber panelled door; square-headed doorway to basement with rendered reveals. Flight of nine nosed granite steps and platform, with wrought-iron handrail having decorative cast-iron panel on granite plinth wall to east side. Rendered wall to front boundary, with granite coping, rendered piers with granite caps, having decorative cast-iron pedestrian gate.

This well-built house is part of a terrace of four late nineteenth-century houses with similar parapet heights and fenestration patterns. Its attractive frontage is ornamented by a granite cornice and quoins and elaborate rope-mouldings to the entrance door. The granite coped wall provides a sense of enclosure from the adjoining the busy road. The North Circular Road was laid out in the 1780s to create a convenient approach to the city. It developed slowly over the following century with little development west of Phibsborough till the 1870s.