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Terraced three-bay two-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1830. Pitched artificial slate roof behind parapet wall with granite coping and replacement hopper and cast-iron downpipe breaking through to east. Chimneystacks to both party walls with clay pots, rendered to west with oversized brick stack abutting west gable to No. 29. Yellow brick walls laid in Flemish bond on painted chamfered granite plinth course over rendered basement walls. Gauged brick flat-arch window openings (rebuilt in red brick to first floor heads) patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement uPVC windows. Gauged brick three-centred-arch door opening with moulded surround and original doorcase. Replacement timber door flanked by slender panelled pilasters and console brackets supporting fluted lintel cornice and plain fanlight. Door opens onto granite platform and two granite steps, bridging basement. Platform and basement area enclosed by original wrought-iron railings and cast-iron corner posts on granite plinth wall to street.

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. A single-bay wider than the remaining thirteen houses, this example abuts the short terrace of three-storey houses to the east and retains its doorcase and general composition, adding subtle variety to the rhythmic tone of the streetscape which constitutes the northeast limit of Georgian Dublin. The retention of granite steps and the stone plinth and iron railings to the basement area enhances the setting and contributes to the intact character of the street line.