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Terraced pair of two-bay two-storey houses, built c.1870, with returns to rear (north) elevation. Pitched artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with rendered reveals, granite sills, and one-over-one pane timber sash windows. Round-headed door openings with rendered reveals, plain glass fanlights, granite thresholds, and replacement uPVC and timber doors. Cast-iron railings on rendered plinths with granite copings, having matching cast-iron pedestrian gates to front boundary.

Construction of the Grand Canal was completed in 1797, providing a waterway connection between Dublin and the River Shannon. New streets, including this one, were laid out along the canal and in the surrounding area, and residential development began in the early nineteenth century. The houses along Windsor Terrace were built speculatively giving rise to small groupings of similar, though not identical, terraced houses. Individually named terraces, including Rosanna Place and Bloomfield Place are recorded on the Ordnance Survey maps. No.7 and 7A are recorded as a single house, Bloomfield Cottage, in Thom’s Directory of 1845. It was subsequently subdivided or rebuilt, and is recorded as 7 and 7 ½ Windsor Terrace in the 1901 Census. The cast-iron railings and gates are well designed, indicating the work of a skilled artisan, and the front gardens which they enclose are typical of early suburban housing.