house

Attached three-bay single-storey former house over raised basement, built c. 1870, of two-storeys with return to rear (south) elevation. Now in use as apartments. M-profile pitched slate roof, partly hidden behind parapet with moulded render cornice; rendered chimneystacks to end walls with clay pots. Yellow brick walling, laid in Flemish bond to ground floor of front elevation, with granite plinth course over rendered basement walling; pebbledashed walling to east elevation; rendered elsewhere. Square-headed window openings with cut granite sills, rendered reveals and replacement uPVC windows. Elliptical-headed doorway with moulded render reveal and timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters, replacement console brackets and stepped cornice, early timber panelled door and spoked fanlight, approached by flight of nine nosed cut granite steps with decorative cast-iron bootscrape to platform, flanked by cast-iron railings with wrought-iron handrail having decorative panels with fleur-de-lis finials; granite platform to foot of steps. Brick-paved forecourt on site of front garden.

'Tolka Lodge', as it is called on the third edition Ordnance Survey map, is unique in style on this road. It retains its early form and character, enhanced by the well-proportioned openings and salient features such as the early doorcase and fanlight. The survival of cast-iron details attests to the artisanship in mass-produced ironwork of the later nineteenth century, and contributes to the historic character of the road. The level of the road was built above the flood plain of the Tolka River, facilitating later development to either side to provide living space for an expanding city.