house — Parnell Square West

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1765. Now in use as offices and educational centre. Pitched artificial slate roof behind red brick parapet wall with moulded granite coping. Rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to party walls, full-depth chimneystack shared with No. 40 to north. Cast-iron rainwater goods throughout. Flemish bond red brick walls with granite ashlar plinth course and granite ashlar plat band over painted rendered, ruled-and-lined walls to basement level. Scrolled wrought-iron brackets flanking doorcase. Gauged red brick flat-arched window openings with rendered reveals and granite sills. Recent replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to basement openings, historic replacement one-over-one pane windows to ground and first floors, six-over-six pane to second floor and three-over-three to top floor. Cast-iron balconettes to first-storey openings. Square-headed door opening within tripartite painted stone Ionic doorcase having engaged columns with responding pilasters to sidelights, on rusticated plinths, with entablature and cornice surmounted by replacement stained-glass fanlight within moulded archivolt, latter having gauged red brick voussoirs above. Replacement timber door and replacement stained-glass sidelights. Door opens onto granite flagged platform bridging basement area, enclosed by replacement wrought-iron railings with boxed corner posts on original and replacement granite plinth. Matching gate accessing limestone flagged basement via recent galvanized steel staircase with cast-iron handrail.