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End-of-terrace two-bay single-storey former house over raised basement, built c. 1860, as one of terrace of nine. Return to rear elevation. Now in use as apartments. Pitched slate roof, hipped to south, with brick and rendered chimneystacks with clay pots. Parapet with cut granite coping to front (east) elevation. Brown brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls. Cut granite plinth course over lined-and-ruled rendered wall to basement to front. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and rendered reveals, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening with moulded render surround. Timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters having scrolled consoles supporting carved cornice, plain fanlight. Timber panelled door. Granite steps with cast-iron bootscrape to platform. Wrought-iron railings. Square-headed door opening to basement with recent door. Wrought-iron gate flanked by concrete piers. Matching railings on carved granite plinth wall enclosing basement area.

This small scale yet attractive house is enhanced by the retention of historic features such as the classically-influenced doorcase and granite dressings. It forms part of a row of houses of uniform height that creates an orderly rhythm in the streetscape. The stone setts to the road adjacent to the terrace are a subtle but attractive reminder of early civil engineering in this suburban area. Synge Street was reputedly named for the Church of Ireland Bishop Edward Synge who held land there in the eighteenth century. The street began to be developed in the mid-nineteenth century, as demand for suburban housing grew.