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Terraced two-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c. 1875 as one of terrace of four, having return to rear (north) elevation. M-profile pitched roof, with red brick chimneystacks having clay pots to west end, hidden behind granite cornice and eaves course. Red brick walls to upper floors, laid in Flemish bond with granite block-and-start quoins to upper floors over cut masonry plinth course with rendered walls to basement to front elevation; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to upper floors; square-headed opening to basement with masonry sill and replacement timber window. Round-headed principal doorway with rope-moulded reveals, carved timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters with scrolled brackets supporting dentillated timber frieze, plain fanlight and timber panelled door; square-headed doorway to basement with rendered reveals. Flight of nine nosed granite steps and platform, shared with neighbour, having wrought-iron handrail on granite plinth to west with decorative panel. Front boundary has rendered wall with granite coping, rendered piers with concrete caps and wrought-iron pedestrian gate.

This well-built house is part of a terraced group of four with similar parapet heights and fenestration patterns. Its attractive frontage is ornamented by a granite cornice and elaborate rope mouldings to the entrance door, and by the retention of timber sash windows. The granite coped wall provides a sense of enclosure from the adjoining the busy road. The North Circular Road was laid out in the 1780s to create a convenient approach to the city. It developed slowly over the following century with little development west of Phibsborough till the 1870s.