house — Mountjoy Square West

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1800, as one of pair. Interconnected with No. 65, recently in commercial use and currently vacant. Double-pile slate roof with pair of hipped sections to rear set perpendicular to street. Stepped rendered and yellow brick chimneystacks with clay pots to both party walls. Roof hidden behind rendered parapet wall with bitumen covered coping and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to north end. Cement rendered walls with rendered quoins on rendered plinth course over rendered basement walls. Cement rendered walls to rear elevation with cast-iron tie-plates. Square-headed window openings with painted granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows to middle floors of front facade, one-over-one pane to first floor and two-over-two pane to second floor. Replacement timber casement to top floor, and metal roller shutters to ground floor openings. Decorative wrought-iron balconettes to first floor. Single round-arched stair hall window to rear elevation with six-over-six pane early timber sliding sash window and one-over-one pane windows elsewhere. Round-headed door opening with moulded stucco surround and painted stone Ionic doorcase. Original timber door with eleven raised-and-fielded panels flanked by engaged Ionic columns on plinth blocks, blocked up sidelights and quarter engaged responding Ionic pilasters all supporting stepped lintel cornice with festoons and boarded up fanlight. Door opens onto granite platform with cast-iron bootscraper and two granite steps bridging basement. Platform and basement enclosed by original wrought-iron railings with cast-iron corner posts set on moulded granite plinth wall. Matching iron gate provides access to basement via concrete steps.