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Terraced two-bay two-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1830. Now in multiple occupancy. Pitched slate roof with black clay ridge tiles behind parapet wall with granite coping and replacement rainwater goods breaking through parapet. Brick chimneystacks to both party walls. Yellow brick walls laid in Flemish bond (English garden wall bond to rear) on painted chamfered granite plinth course over rendered basement. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings, rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Gauged brick three-centred arch door opening with replacement hardwood doors, and original spoked fanlight. Door opens onto granite platform with cast-iron bootscraper and two granite steps, bridging basement area. Platform and basement enclosed by original wrought-iron railings and cast-iron corner posts on granite plinth wall.

Located within a terrace of thirteen early nineteenth-century houses, this pleasant house of modest Georgian proportions forms an integral component of the north side of Summerhill Parade. The terrace itself appears on Wilson's map of 1798 framing the northern side of the approach from the Royal Canal and Ballybough. This house retains its overall composition and the setting is enhanced by the retention of the granite steps and boundary plinth and iron railings. It contributes to the consistency of the streetscape which constitutes the northeast limits of Georgian Dublin.