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Attached three-bay three-storey former house over basement, built c. 1820. Abutted to rear by two-storey additions and having oriel window to first floor of rear. Now in commercial use. Half-hipped pitched slate roof running perpendicular to street with smaller pitched roof alongside to east; parapet with painted masonry coping and concealed rainwater goods. Brick chimneystack to middle of western pitch. Ruled-and-lined painted rendered walling over channel rusticated ground floor and ruled-and-lined painted rendered basement walling; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted rendered architraves and sills. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows; replacement uPVC casements to basement behind iron grilles. Elliptical-headed door opening, with Ionic doorcase having partially engaged Ionic columns with plinth base, capitals supporting plain lintel cornice, plain fanlight with two glazing bars, and replacement four-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite entrance platform bridging basement, with four granite steps to street level. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron corner posts on tall painted plinth wall with granite coping. Recent steel gate to entrance steps. Building set back from general building line.

No. 10 Saint Stephen's Green is a handsome and well-proportioned house that forms a cohesive pair with No. 10 to the west. Built on the site of an earlier larger house, possibly late seventeenth-century, as depicted on Rocque's map of 1756. The unusual triple-span roof, unusual fenestration and high parapet suggests modification of an earlier structure. The early nineteenth-century façade is distinguished by a Greek Ionic doorcase and, despite some fabric modifications, the building represents one of the few surviving links to the early origins of Saint Stephen's Green.