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Terraced three-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built 1846, having two-storey return to rear (north) elevation. Pitched M-profile roof hidden behind rendered parapet with cornice to front elevation, and smooth rendered chimneystacks with clay chimneypots. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render stringcourses. Square-headed window openings, having moulded surrounds to ground floor openings, continuous moulded render sill course to first floor, and replacement windows. Round-headed door opening set in slightly projecting doorcase, having moulded surround and pilasters with cornice, timber panelled door and plain fanlight. Cut granite entrance steps and platform having cast-iron railings. Set back from road and having smooth rendered plinth walls with granite capping and some cast-iron railings.

The raised entrance and mouldings of this house add interest to the streetscape. It was built by Joseph Mannin on land leased from J.E.V. Vernon, as the centre piece of a terrace of five houses and therefore shares proportions and details with its neighbours, resulting in a pleasing composition that can be appreciated due to its siting on the expansive seafront. This terrace is amongst the earlier surviving developments on the seafront that became known Clontarf Road after 1912 and appears to have replaced earlier buildings. The area was known as the Clontarf Sheds due its longstanding use for drying sheds for the fishing industry. A large number of new suburban houses were constructed from the nineteenth century onwards in order to accommodate Clontarf's popularity as a middle class suburb.