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End-of-terrace pair of three-bay two-storey houses, built c.1810, having later two-storey extensions to rear (south) elevations. No.24 currently in use as flats. Pitched artificial slate roof hipped to west elevation, having parapet with granite capping to front elevation. Rendered walls, no.23 having later pebbledash finish to front elevation. Square-headed window openings with masonry sills and replacement windows. Round-headed door openings having replacement timber doors and plain fanlights. Cast-iron bootscrape to no.24. Front gardens enclosed by rendered plinth walls having replacement metal gates and railings, no.24 having rendered wall to west boundary.

Addressing Dublin’s Grand Canal, this pair of houses forms part of a terrace which was built shortly after the construction of the circular line of the canal in 1796. The terrace was built on lands belonging to the Earl of Meath, beside the river Poddle and the Greenmount Spinning Manufactory which was built in 1808. This land had been the site of a corn mill since the mid-eighteenth century. The houses in the terrace exhibit a well-designed and well-executed early suburban architecture. The quality of materials, and composition and scale of the houses create a pleasing coherent design, making a positive architectural contribution to the street and to the setting of the Grand Canal.