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Attached three-bay three-storey over basement former house, built c. 1820, with three-storey return to rear. Now in use as offices. Shallow pitched roof with dormers inserted, concealed by brick parapet with granite coping. Rendered chimneystacks to south party wall with lipped yellow clay pots. Parapet gutters and uPVC downpipe with hopper to north end. Yellow-brown brick walling laid in Flemish bond, refaced on upper floor, over painted ruled-and-lined rendered walling to basement beneath painted granite plinth course. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, painted rendered reveals and painted granite sills. Six-over-six sliding timber sash windows. Wrought-iron guard rails to second floor and cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Round-headed door opening with brick voussoirs to principal elevation with stone reveals and recessed doorcase with moulded cornice and frieze, replacement spoked fanlight and timber panelled door with brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot scraper, approached by four granite steps flanked by iron railings with decorative corner posts on painted granite plinth, enclosing basement to south-side. Plainly detailed square-headed door opening to basement with replacement timber panelled door and overlight. Coal-hole cover to pavement. Street fronted on western side of Pembroke Street Upper. Recent four-storey flat-roofed office building to rear at Mackie’s Place.

Well-proportioned former townhouse, executed in a typical Dublin Georgian-style with restrained façade detailing. Forming part of a row of similar terraces lining the western side of Pembroke Street Lower, the variations in proportions, levels and detailing are indicative of the speculative nature of the development. Despite some replacement fabric insertions, the building is well-retained and positively contributes to the historic streetscape.