Vere Foster House — Parnell Square West

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1760. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles behind rebuilt parapet wall with square granite ashlar coping. Rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flemish bond red brick walls with second and third floors rebuilt. Granite plinth course over coursed granite ashlar walls to basement level. Yellow brick walls to rear elevation. Bronze plaque reading, 'I.N.T.O.' and copper plaque reading, 'Vere Foster House' to ground floor. Gauged red brick flat-arched window openings with rendered reveals and granite sills to upper floors, having replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to basement, ground and first floors. Replacement uPVC windows to upper two floors. Cast-iron balconettes to first and third floors. Dressed granite surrounds and gauged granite voussoirs to basement window openings, with wrought-iron window guards. Granite lintels to third floor windows to rear elevation. Round-headed door opening within painted stone doorcase having rusticated pilasters on plinth blocks, stepped cornice and scroll-work brackets with open-bed pediment over, housing replacement stained-glass fanlight with rusticated surround. Replacement timber door with brass plate and door fittings. Door opens onto granite flagged platform with barley twist cast-iron bootscraper and granite stepped approach bridging basement area. Approach flanked by wrought-iron railings with boxed corner posts on replacement granite plinth.