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Attached two-bay three-storey former house over raised basement, built c. 1815 as one of terrace of twelve (Nos. 4-15) within longer row of similar houses, with single-storey addition to south end of rear. In use as apartments and pre-school. M-profile roof, hipped to north end, having brick parapet with moulded granite coping, shouldered rendered chimneystacks to south party wall with clay pots, and concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond buff brick walling on granite plinth course over rendered basement walling; rendered walling to rear. Square-headed window openings with patent reveals and granite sills; painted rendered surround to basement opening to front, set in segmental-headed recess. Timber sliding sash windows, replacement eight-over-eight pane to basement with profiled horns, and six-over-six pane elsewhere lacking horns except for one top floor opening; rear has timber sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane below, with round-headed window to north bay. Elliptical-headed doorway with painted moulded surround and stone doorcase comprising pro-style fluted Doric columns, plain entablature, decorative leaded fanlight and bolection-moulded two-panel timber door with beaded muntin and brass furniture. Shared granite-paved entrance platform with two stages of five and five bull-nosed steps, flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth. Street bounded by decorative cast-iron railings with foliate motifs on moulded granite plinth. Plain square-headed doorway beneath entrance platform. Yard to rear of plot, with two-storey rubble stone mews building to lane.

No. 14 Herbert Place forms part of a cohesive late Georgian terrace of twenty-five houses (Nos. 4-24), set back from the Grand Canal above exposed basements. The historic form and architectural character of the terrace are largely well retained, with notable Greek Revival doorcases, decorative fanlights and good ironwork setting features. Forming part of a unified group lining the west bank of the Grand Canal, this terrace enhances this historic streetscape and contributes to the wider Georgian core of south Dublin. The survival of the original mews building to the rear, albeit modified, enhances the property. Originally built as a southward continuation of Warrington Place, the street was renamed following the accession of Sidney Herbert to his father's estates in 1827.