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Attached two-bay four-storey former house over raised basement, built c. 1835 as one of terrace of four (Nos. 25-28), and having three-storey brick-walled return to south end of rear. Now in office use. M-profile artificial slate roof, hipped to south end, having brick parapet with moulded granite coping, ashlar platband and granite blocking course, shouldered brick chimneystacks to north party wall and gabled return with terracotta pots, concealed rainwater goods, and with replacement uPVC downpipes to return. Flemish bond buff brick walling (of same shade as No. 25) on granite plinth course over painted rendered rusticated basement. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals and granite sills; rendered surround to basement opening at front, set in segmental-headed recess; round-headed window opening to rear stairs hall. Timber sliding sash windows with convex horns, ten-over-ten pane to basement and six-over-six pane elsewhere except for replacement uPVC window to top floor; some replacement timber casements to return. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor, and cast-iron grille to basement. Timber sash windows to rear, six-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane below, with round-headed window to south bay. Round-headed doorway with moulded surround and stone doorcase comprising half-fluted Doric columns, entablature with laurel wreaths to keyed frieze, leaded decorative fanlight, and bolection-moulded twin-panel timber door with brass furniture and beaded muntin. Shared granite entrance platform with decorative cast-iron boot-scrape and two stages of six and eight bull-nosed granite steps flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth. Plain square-headed door opening beneath entrance platform. Decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth to street, with matching pedestrian gate to round-headed cast-iron openwork piers. Additions and yard to rear, with modernized two-storey mews building to lane.

No. 27 Herbert Place forms part of a cohesive late Georgian terrace of twenty-five houses, set back from the Grand Canal above high exposed basements. This group of four houses (Nos. 25-28), a storey taller than the rest of the terrace, is thought have been constructed slightly later. They retain notable Greek Revival doorcases, decorative fanlights, rusticated treatment at basement level and cohesive ironwork setting features. Originally built as a southward continuation of Warrington Place, this stretch was renamed following the accession of Sidney Herbert to his father's estates in 1827. The historic form and architectural character of the terraced group are largely well retained. Although many of the mews buildings have been modernized, the overall form of the group remains, with some stone mews buildings still extant (albeit modified), including that to the rear of No. 27. Forming part of a unified group lining the west bank of the Grand Canal, the terrace enhances this historic streetscape and contributes to the wider Georgian core of south Dublin.