house — Parnell Square West

Terraced two-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built in period 1763-73. Now in use as offices. M-profile slate roof, hipped to south with large brick chimneystacks to north party wall having clay pots. Roof hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping and shared cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to north. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls, painted brick to ground floor with chamfered granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings with granite sills. Replacement timber sliding sash windows to lower floors, six-over-six pane to middle floors and one-over-one pane to ground floor, and replacement timber windows to top floor. Elliptical-headed door opening with moulded masonry surround and late nineteenth-century Doric doorcase. Replacement timber door flanked by Doric columns on plinth blocks supporting replacement timber box lintel and nineteenth-century teardrop fanlight. Door opens onto platform with replacement granite paving and single granite step bridging basement. Platform and basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings and cast-iron corner posts on moulded granite plinth wall and replacement iron gates enclosing platform to street. Matching wrought-iron gate gives basement access via steel steps.