house — Mountjoy Square East

End-of-terrace corner-sited three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built, c.1800, as pair with No. 17 to north and forming external corner of east side of Mountjoy Square. Now in multiple occupancy. Double-pile asbestos tiled roof with pair of pitches set perpendicular to rear, that to north shared with adjoining house. Brick chimneystack to south gable and rendered chimneystack to rear gable, both having clay pots. Roof hidden behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to granite plinth course above roughcast rendered basement walls. Cement rendered side and rear elevations with granite coping to parapet. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with flush rendered reveals, painted granite sills and mainly replacement uPVC windows. Original wrought-iron balconettes to first floor windows and iron grilles to basement windows. Early replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to south side elevation and two round-headed stair hall window openings to rear elevation with spoked upper sashes retained. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with fluted reveal and painted stone Ionic doorcase, and original timber door with eight raised-and-fielded panels flanked by engaged Ionic columns on plinth bases supporting stepped lintel cornice with swag motifs and plain fanlight. Door opens onto shared granite platform divided by original wrought-iron railing to north, integrated bootscraper to south railing and five granite steps bridging basement. Basement area enclosed by original wrought-iron railing and cast-iron corner posts set on moulded granite plinth wall, returning to enclose south side elevation in curved sweep. Roughcast rendered red brick boundary wall to Fitzgibbon Street with timber pedestrian door, ESB sub-station and two single-storey flat-roofed shop units.