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Terraced two-bay three-storey house over raised basement, built c.1830. M-profile slate roof behind parapet wall with granite coping and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to north. Rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to north party wall. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond, replaced to top floor on cement rendered platband. Painted granite plinth course over ruled-and-lined rendered basement wall and yellow brick walls laid in Flemish bond to rear elevation. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with rendered reveals, painted granite sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with angled horns. Possibly original timber sash windows to the rear elevation including round-headed stairhall window opening with spoked upper sash. Gauged brick segmental-headed door opening with moulded surround and painted masonry Ionic doorcase. Original timber door with eleven flat panels and brass furniture, flanked by engaged Ionic columns on plinth bases supporting fluted lintel cornice and plain glazed fanlight with decorative replacement ironwork. Door opens onto shared granite paved platform with wrought-iron bootscraper and five granite steps bridging basement area. Platform and front garden enclosed by wrought-iron railings set on granite plinth wall to street with concrete piers and replacement pedestrian iron gate to garden.

This house is one of a terrace of five dating from the early nineteenth century. Built as part of the expansion of the city, due to the opening of the North Circular Road and the arrival of the railway, the terrace was constructed prior to the insertion of the former Dublin and Drogheda line which now runs along the south of the terrace. Despite the rebuilding of the walls to the upper floor, this house appears to be still in single occupancy and retains an original door and doorcase, façade composition and ironmongery, making a marked contribution to the appearance of the terrace as a whole while retaining the early residential appearance of the streetscape.