house — Parnell Square West

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1760. Now in use as offices. Entrance bay set further from other bays. Roof concealed behind rebuilt parapet wall with squared granite coping. Flemish bond red brick walls with moulded granite plinth course over coursed granite walls to basement level. Top floor rebuilt and raised at later date in red brick. Gauged granite flat-arched window openings with granite sills to basement level. Granite lintels to third floor windows to rear. Gauged red brick flat-arched window openings with rendered reveals and granite sills elsewhere. Replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows of c.1825 to upper floors, twentieth-century replacements to basement. Historic wrought-iron balcony to first floor. Square-headed door opening within painted stone Tuscan doorcase having engaged columns on plinth blocks with responding pilasters, surmounted by entablature with open-bed pediment, housing replacement stained-glass fanlight. Replacement timber door with brass fittings, with flanking replacement stained-glass sidelights having cast-iron sill guards to plinths. Door opens onto dressed granite platform with two cast-iron bootscrapers and granite stepped approach bridging basement, flanked by wrought-iron railings on replacement granite plinth, with matching gate to platform accessing modern steel staircase to limestone flagged basement level. Backs onto Dominick Place with three-storey pitched roof building.