O'Shea's Hotel — Gardiner Street Lower

Terraced two-bay four-storey house over raised basement, built c.1820, currently in use as hotel (occupying Nos. 71-73 Lower Gardiner Street). No trace of original doorcase or detailing as front facade appears to have been rebuilt from top of ground floor to parapet. M-profile slate roof, hipped to south, concealed behind parapet wall with squared granite coping and cast iron hopper and downpipe. Yellow brick chimneystack with clay pots to boundary with No.74. Red brick walls laid in stretcher bond to moulded granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement area. Diminishing square-headed window openings with gauged brick voussoirs, granite sills and replacement windows throughout including replacement single-pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor and basement openings. Decorative metal balconettes to first floor windows and iron grille to basement. Square-headed door opening with flush reveals, glazed timber door and single-pane overlight. Door opens onto granite platform bridging basement area, with granite stepped approach. Approach flanked by wrought-iron railings with cast-iron finials, on moulded granite plinths returning to enclose basement area. Square-headed door opening to basement with replacement timber panelled door. Replacement gate and concrete steps allowing access to the basement area from street. Limited access to rear of property which has been heavily developed. Original brick mews structure addresses Mabbot Lane, with altered façade and roof.