house — Parnell Square West

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1765. Now in use as theatre and offices. Built as pair with No. 37. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles behind rebuilt red brick parapet wall with squared render coping. Rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to party walls, shared with No. 37 to south. Having mixed cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Flemish bond red brick walls with moulded granite ashlar plinth course and granite platband over rendered walls to basement. Cast-iron brackets below ground floor windows and cast-iron lantern on bracket. Gauged red brick flat-arched window openings with rendered reveals and rendered sills. Granite ashlar sills to basement level openings. Historic replacement one-over-one timber sliding sash windows to basement, recent replacement timber sliding sash windows elsewhere. Cast-iron balconettes to first and third floors. Square-headed door opening within painted stone Tuscan doorcase having engaged columns with 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 door to opening and stained glass to sidelights. Door opens onto granite flagged platform flanked by wrought-iron railing with wrought and cast-iron boxed corner posts on replacement granite plinths. Matching gate accessing limestone flagged basement, shared with No. 37, via steel staircase with cast-iron handrail.