house — Parnell Square West

Terraced four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1765, having two-bay ground floor and three-bay upper floors. Now in use as theatre. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles behind rebuilt red brick parapet wall with squared granite coping. Rendered chimneystack with clay pots to party walls. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods throughout. Flemish bond red brick walls with granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement. Top floor rebuilt in English garden wall bond. Gauged red brick flat-arched window openings with rendered reveals and granite sills. Replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, six-over-six pane to basement, three-over-three to top floor, with historic replacement six-over-six pane to second floor, and tripartite window to ground floor having six-over-six pane opening flanked by two-over-two pane sidelights. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Square-headed door opening within painted stone Tuscan 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. Replacement timber door and replacement stained-glass sidelights. Door opens onto granite flagged platform bridging basement area, enclosed by wrought-iron railings with boxed corner posts on original and replacement granite plinth. Matching gate accessing limestone flagged basement via recent galvanized steel staircase.