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Terraced two-pile three-storey house over raised basement, built 1792 as one of twenty-five, having three-bay ground floor and two-bay upper floors, with two-storey return to west end of rear elevation. M-profile hipped slate roof, hipped to west end, having shared rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to east end, hidden behind rendered parapet having moulded render cornice, and eaves course, and with lean-to roof to return. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls, with cut masonry plinth course above basement. Square-headed window openings with masonry sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed doorway with timber doorcase comprising fluted timber pilasters supporting timber frieze and plain fanlight with moulded rendered surround and scrolled brackets, and early timber panelled door, approached by three granite steps and platform with wrought-iron handrail. carparking to front, bounded by replacement metal vehicular gate. Garden to rear.

This house is part of a significant architectural set-piece, Marino Crescent, one of the few Georgian crescents in the city. The classically restrained façade is subtly enlivened by render detailing. The crescent comprises houses with similar parapet heights and fenestration patterns, with larger houses to the centre and west end. The terrace was built in the last decade of the eighteenth century to take advantage of the sea views, prior to land reclamation projects associated with the enlargement of Dublin Port. The houses were built by Charles ffolliot, reputedly to spite Lord Charlemont, blocking the vista from Marino House, and were locally known as Spite Crescent as a result.