house — Henrietta Street

End-of-terrace four-bay four-storey house over raised basement, built c.1745, with full-height bow to rear. Currently being restored by Dublin City Council. M-profile slate roof, hipped to corner with pitched roof running perpendicular to street terminating in semi-conical roof over rear bow. Roof hidden behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to east end. Rendered chimneystacks rising from east gable and further pair of brick chimneystacks to west party wall, all having clay pots. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with partially intact lime tuck-pointing. Chamfered granite plinth course over rendered basement walls. Roughcast rendered walls to east gable with chamfered granite plinth course over coursed limestone calp plinth wall. Cement rendered walls to rear elevation. Gauged red brick flat-arched window openings with flush rendered reveals, stone sills and nineteenth-century timber sliding sash windows throughout, six-over-six pane to lower floors and two-over-two pane to top floor. East gable has single window opening to each level with two round-headed window openings, that to first floor having early six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window with spoked upper sash, iron grille and iron window guards to remainder. Square-headed door opening with painted stone pedimented Doric doorcase. Steel security door with plain masonry surround flanked by engaged Doric columns on plinth blocks supporting full Doric entablature and triangular pediment complete with mutules, guttae and foliate panels. Door opens onto platform (paving removed) and four granite steps bridging basement. Platform and basement enclosed by original wrought-iron railings and wrought-iron piers set on raised moulded granite plinth wall with matching iron gate to west with stone steps to basement area. Rear garden enclosed by roughcast rendered wall to Henrietta Lane.