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Terraced four-bay three-storey house, built c.1840, with integral carriage arch, three-storey return and extensions to rear. Fronts directly onto street. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to return and hipped tiled roof to extension. Ruled-and-lined render to façade, smooth and roughcast render to rear with exposed yellow brick. uPVC windows with stone sills. Segmental-headed door opening with timber panelled door and replacement fanlight, flanked by engaged Doric columns on stone bases, accessed over limestone threshold. Segmental-headed carriage arch gives access to rear site.

The house forms part of a terrace which leads up to Birr Castle walls from Emmet Square. Substantial in scale, it is quite typical of the Irish Georgian townhouse. Although its original sashes have been replaced, it retains its classical Doric doorcase which gives the structure its architectural heritage significance.