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Corner-sited end-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c. 1885 as one of terrace of ten, having full-height return to rear (north) elevation; east-end bay being addition of c. 2005. M-profile pitched slate roof, having brick chimneystack with clay pots to west ends and to return, and profiled metal gutter supported on bracketed brick eaves course over further yellow brick course. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, over granite plinth course and snecked limestone walls to basement to front elevation; rendered to side (east) and rear. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, with red brick block-and-start surrounds to basement. Round-headed principal doorway with carved timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters with scrolled brackets supporting timber frieze and moulded cornice, plain fanlight and replacement timber panelled door, approached by flight of nosed granite steps, with granite platform having mild steel handrails. Garden to front, bounded by cast-iron railings on cut granite plinth, having concrete piers with granite caps and timber vehicular gate.

This well-built house is part of a terrace of ten late nineteenth-century houses with similar parapet heights and fenestration patterns. The combination of snecked Calp limestone and red brick adds visual and textural interest to the facade and the bracketed brick detailing to the eaves places the house in a late nineteenth-century context. Its carved timber doorcase, atop a flight of steps provide a decorative focus. North Circular Road was laid out in the 1780s to create a convenient approach to the city, but developed slowly over the following century, with little development west of Phibsborough until the 1870s. The terrace was named 'Charleville Terrace' for Charleville House in Wicklow, home of Charles Monck, the landowner responsible for development along this stretch of the road.