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Terraced two-bay single-storey house over raised basement, built c. 1840, now also in use as crèche. M-profile pitched slate roof having terracotta ridge tiles, brick shared chimneystack, rendered parapet with cornice. Yellow brick walls, laid in Flemish bond, having cut granite plinth course over lined-and-ruled rendered wall to basement level. Square-headed window openings with granite sills, rendered reveals and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Elliptical-headed door opening having timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters and foliate console brackets supporting frieze, later timber panelled door and teardrop fanlight. Shared granite steps with cast-iron coal-hole cover and bootscrape to platform. Basement area bounded by rendered plinth wall having granite coping surmounted by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron collars, curved alignment to steps. Recent gate and steps to basement level. Basement door beneath entrance steps. Set back from road with basement-level front garden.

This house retains its traditional facade composition and many features including an elegant door surround, sash windows and ironmongery which are characteristic of its early/mid-nineteenth-century date. The shared scale and features of these small genteel townhouses contribute to the unified residential neighbourhood character of the area. The streetscape is further enhanced by the retention of elegant iron railings. Pleasants Street along with its neighbouring roads forms part of early Victorian neighbourhood located to the west of Camden Street. The street is named after the philanthropist Thomas Pleasants (1729-1818) who donated money towards the establishment of the nearby Meath Hospital.