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Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement former house, built c. 1800, as a terrace of four with the adjoining buildings to the east and west. Now in use as offices. Hipped slate roof running perpendicular to street, clay ridge and hip tiles, red brick chimneystack, cast-iron gutters on stepped brick corbelled eaves course, circular cast-iron downpipe. Painted smooth rendered walling to basement, red brick laid in Flemish bond. Segmental-headed window opening to basement, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash window; square-headed window openings to upper storeys, painted smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows. Rounded-headed door opening, painted stone Gibbsian door surround with prominent keystone, plain-glazed fanlight, painted timber door with six raised-and-fielded panels, wrought-iron bootscraper on limestone entrance platform accessed by four limestone steps; square-headed door opening to basement, painted timber vertically-sheeted door with multiple-paned panel to upper section; round-headed brick-arched opening at basement level on east party wall accessed by limestone steps, entrance covered by corrugated metal sheeting. Basement area bounded by tooled limestone plinth wall surmounted by wrought-iron railings with cast-iron fleur-de-lis finials. Street fronted.

This fine Georgian mid-terrace house has many defining characteristics such as the window proportions, door surround and simple fanlight. Its Gibbsian door surround is worthy of note as is the shared round-headed brick-arched opening at basement level which adds to the architectural character of this elegant terrace. As part of a group of similar dated properties the house reflects the prosperity of Drogheda during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.