house — O'Connell Street

Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former house, built c. 1820, with a front railed basement area. Pitched natural slate roof hidden behind parapet wall with limestone coping and a rendered chimneystack to the north party wall with a further brick chimneystack to the south party wall and uPVC rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with cement pointing and a limestone ashlar wall to the basement with moulded plinth course above. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with rendered reveals, painted limestone sills and uPVC windows. Red brick walls to rear, rebuilt to the third floor with some timber Wyatt windows and a round-arched timber sash window to the stair half-landing. Gauged brick three-point arched door opening containing an inset timber doorcase comprising: a pair of engaged Ionic timber columns flanked by sidelights and a pair of quarter Ionic piers supporting a stepped fluted entablature with modillions and an Adamesque fanlight above. Square-headed door opening with original raised and fielded timber-panelled door leaf with a central fillet and brass furniture. Door opens onto a limestone threshold step and limestone platform and four steps. Platform enclosed to south by mild steel rail with original wrought-iron railing and cast-iron corner posts on a limestone plinth. A former central window opening has been modified to form an additional door opening c. 1970, with a timber-panelled door opening onto four concrete steps bridging the basement and enclosed by ornate cast-iron railing.