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Terraced two-bay two-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1830. Pitched concrete tiled roof behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping. Chimneystacks to both party walls with clay pots, rebuilt brick to west, rendered stepped stack to east. Yellow brick walls laid in Flemish bond on painted chamfered granite plinth course over rendered basement walls, rebuilt at parapet level in red brick. Gauged brick flat-arch window openings, patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement uPVC windows. Gauged brick three-centred-arch door opening with replacement timber door and replacement surround. Door opens onto granite platform and two granite steps, bridging basement area. Platform and basement enclosed by original wrought-iron railings and cast-iron corner posts on granite plinth wall.

Located within a terrace of thirteen early nineteenth-century houses, this pleasant house of modest Georgian proportions forms an integral component of the north side of Summerhill Parade. The house retains its overall composition and setting, the latter enhanced by the retention of granite steps and the plinth and railings to the basement area. the building is a component part of the wider terrace which stands at the northeastern limit of Georgian Dublin.