house — Parnell Square West

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1765. Now in use as theatre. Built as pair with No. 36. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles behind rebuilt red brick parapet wall with squared rendered coping. Stepped rendered chimneystack to party wall, shared with No. 36. Mixed cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Flemish bond red brick walls with moulded granite plinth course and granite platband over rendered walls to basement. Upper portion of third floor rebuilt in Flemish bond. Slightly camber-headed window openings with gauged red brick voussoirs, rendered reveals and rendered sills. Granite sills to basement level window openings. Square-headed window openings to third floor with red brick soldier voussoirs. Historic replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to first and second floors, later replacement one-over-one pane windows elsewhere. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Square-headed door opening within tripartite painted stone Tuscan doorcase with columns and responding pilasters on plinth blocks with tooled limestone plinth, columns and pilasters surmounted by moulded lintel, cornice and entablature with open-bed pediment housing replacement stained-glass fanlight. Replacement timber panelled door and replacement stained-glass sidelights. Door opens onto granite-flagged platform with stepped approach bridging basement area. Approach flanked by wrought-iron railing with wrought and cast-iron boxed corner posts on replacement granite plinth. Matching gate accessing limestone-flagged basement, shared with No. 36, via steel staircase with cast-iron handrail.