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Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement former house, built c.1800, now in use as flats. Later lean-to extension to basement area. Pitched roof. Parapet with granite capping to front (north) elevation. Rendered chimneystacks shared with property to east. Brown brick walls laid in Flemish bond. Painted cut granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings having patent reveals and painted sills. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows. Replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening having painted masonry door surround, having engaged columns supporting a fluted frieze with paterae. Spoked fanlight. Timber panelled door. Granite steps to entrance platform, having cut granite retaining walls, with wrought-iron railings and cast-iron corner post shared with property to west, recent railings to east. Basement area enclosed from pavement by granite plinth wall with recent metal railings and gate. Recent external metal stairs to basement area from pavement. Two cast-iron coal-hole covers set in granite pavement to front of house.

This well proportioned former house makes an important contribution to the streetscape. It shares proportions and design details with its neighbours forming a coherent terrace. It retains early fabric including door surround and door. Blessington Street was laid out at the end of the eighteenth century, appearing in the alphabetical list of streets in Wilson's Dublin Directory for the first time in 1795. It terminates to the west end at Blessington Street Basin, constructed in 1810 as a city reservoir supplied from the nearby canal, it is now a public park.