house — Parnell Square North

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1768. Now in use as museum. M-profile slate roof behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to west. Large rendered chimneystack to east party wall, shared with adjoining house No. 18, almost spanning entire gable with clay pots. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond on moulded granite plinth course over rendered basement walls. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six pane to ground and first floors, six-over-six pane to second floor and three-over-three pane to top floor. Decorative wrought-iron balconettes to first floor and iron grilles to basement windows. Round-headed door opening with painted pedimented stone Ionic doorcase. Original timber door with eight raised-and-fielded panels having architrave surround and inset leaded cobweb fanlight. Door opening flanked by engaged Ionic columns on raised plinth blocks supporting pulvinated entablature blocks to open pediment with responding partial pilasters. Door opens onto stone flagged platform and five granite steps enclosed by wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth walls and terminated by pair of decorative iron piers, returning to enclose basement area. Interior has largely painted plaster walls and ceilings, original timber panelled doors, architraves, skirting and panelled window linings and boarded timber floors. Original black and white stone flagged entrance hall having Gothic Revival plaster cornice. Original dog-leg open-string timber stair with turned balusters and moulded handrail. Deep Rococco cornice to first floor rooms and decorative plaster ceilings.