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End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c.1830, one of terrace of five. M-profile pitched slate roof behind parapet with granite coping. Rendered corbelled and shouldered chimneystack with yellow clay pots shared to north. No visible rainwater goods. Brown brick walling laid down in Flemish bond with granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement area. Gauged flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Segmental-headed door opening with rendered surround and gauged brown brick voussoirs having replacement uPVC door and single-pane fanlight. Square-headed door opening to basement level having replacement glazed timber door. Main entrance approached via three granite steps with wrought-iron hand railings and concrete surfaced path from street. Set back from street on own site bounded by replacement wrought-iron railings.

This pleasant house forms a vital component of a well composed early nineteenth-century terrace of five houses. Being of modest proportions it is characteristic of middle-class housing in Dublin at this period. Located in close proximity to Aldborough House (completed in 1799), this terrace forms part of the earlier development phase of the North Circular Road of which Portland Row is an element.