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Terraced two-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c.1830. Built as one of terrace of eight. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks behind brick parapet with squared granite coping and replacement hopper and down pipe. Flemish bond brown brick walls, with plinth course over rendered walls to basement area. Square-headed window openings with gauged brick voussoirs, patent rendered reveals, stone sills and replacement windows. Round-headed door opening with stone surround and doorcase comprising engaged Ionic columns supporting replacement cornice and frieze with decorative leaded fanlight. Timber panelled door opening onto flagged granite platform with cast-iron bootscraper and granite stepped approach bridging basement area. Approach, shared by neighbour, flanked by wrought-iron railing on moulded granite plinth with cast-iron corner posts with urn finials. Basement area bounded by granite plinth surmounted by wrought-iron railings with spike finials. Site is street-fronted with cast-iron coal hole cover in granite setting to concrete footpath.

This finely proportioned building maintains the strong street line and proportions of this part of Charleville Mall. It is an integral component of the streetscape and this Georgian terrace occupies a notable site facing the Royal Canal. The terrace originally comprised thirteen houses, but after the bombing of the North Strand in 1941 some of the houses were so badly damaged that demolition was required.