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Terraced two-bay three-storey house, rebuilt c.1880, part of terrace of four. Now in use as commercial premises and apartments. M-profile pitched slate roof, aluminium coping, rooflight, and raised brown brick parapet having granite coping. Brown brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls. Square-headed window openings to front (west) elevation, raised render reveals, painted masonry sills, brown brick voussoirs and replacement uPVC windows. Elliptical-arched window opening to ground floor with brown brick voussoirs, raised render reveal, painted masonry sill and rendered tympanum over timber-framed display window. Round-arched door opening to front, brown brick voussoirs and painted carved masonry surround, plain fanlight and timber panelled door on granite step, opening onto shared concrete platform with cast-iron bootscrape and four granite steps to footpath. Yard to front enclosed by wrought-iron railings having cast-iron corner columns on rendered plinth wall.

This well-composed building maintains the parapet height and fenestration arrangement of its neighbouring buildings, contributing positively to the horizontal aspect of the streetscape. The grouping of four similarly-composed buildings has a pleasing effect on the street. A carved doorcase provides decorative interest, as does the large display window to the ground floor, a later intervention for the commercial use of the building. The diminishing windows and symmetrical fenestration to the upper floors create a well-proportioned façade, as was characteristic of domestic Georgian architecture. Although most of the original windows have been lost, it retains much of its early form and character. The Dublin street directory of 1862 lists the buildings between 18 and 27 as ‘ground for building’, indicating that this was subsequently rebuilt.