house — Henrietta Street

Terraced four-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1750, currently being restored by Dublin City Council. M-profile slate roof with central pitched section to central valley. Roof hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to centre. Brown brick chimneystacks to both party walls with brick coping and clay pots. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with partially intact lime tuck-pointing and wigging. Chamfered granite plinth course over rubble stone basement walls. Brown brick walls to rear elevation with yellow brick and later red brick repaired sections to upper floors. Replacement gauged red brick flat-arch window openings with patent rendered reveals, masonry sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows throughout, six-over-six pane to first and second floors and three-over-three pane to western two bays of top floor. Square-headed door opening with painted stone pedimented Ionic doorcase. Steel security door with plain masonry surround flanked by Ionic columns on plinth blocks supporting full entablature with pulvinated frieze and dentillated segmental pediment having responding mouldings to either side. Door opens onto granite platform and two granite steps bridging basement. Platform and basement enclosed by wrought-iron railings with cast-iron finials to corner posts set on moulded granite plinth wall with matching iron gate to east.