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End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey over basement with dormer attic house, built c.1830, substantially altered and concrete portico and breakfront bay added to front (south-east) c.1970. Recent flat-roofed extension to rear (north-west). Pitched and hipped artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystack, recent dormers, cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods and overhanging eaves. Rendered walls throughout. Square-headed window openings with rendered ills throughout, having uPVC and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings to front and rear elevations, having replacement glazed timber door with overlight and sidelights to front elevation, timber battened door to rear. Roughcast rendered enclosing wall to south-east.

One of a fine terrace of eight houses which were designed by renowned Cork architect, Henry Hill. Set overlooking the harbour, the terrace was built just as Monkstown was becoming a fashionable seaside resort. The projecting bays are a particularly notable feature of the group, with their fanciful traceried windows, stepped buttresses and pointed arch panelled panels. Though some houses have lost parts of their original fabric, nonetheless the terrace as a whole makes a valuable contribution to the streetscape. The surviving historic features could act as templates for the reinstatement of lost elements in the future.