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Terraced two-bay two-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1830. Pitched artificial slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping and original cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to east. Rebuilt brick chimneystacks to both party walls with terracotta pots. Yellow brick walls laid in Flemish bond on painted chamfered granite plinth course over rendered basement walls. Gauged brick flat-arch window openings, patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement uPVC windows. Gauged brick three-centred-arch door opening with replacement uPVC door and surround. Door opens onto granite platform 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 to street.

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 house retains its general composition and setting, with its granite steps, and basement plinth and railings retained, and plays its part in the cohesion of the terrace at the northeastern limit of Georgian Dublin.