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house — Mountjoy Square West

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Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1800, as one of pair. Interconnected with No. 66 and currently vacant. Double-pile concrete tiled roof with pair of hipped sections to rear set perpendicular to street. Stepped rendered brick chimneystacks with clay pots to both party walls. Roof hidden behind rendered parapet wall with bitumen covered coping. Cement rendered walls on moulded painted granite plinth course over rendered basement walls. Cement rendered walls to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with painted granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-nine pane to first floor, six-over-six pane to second floor, replacement timber casement to top floor, and metal roller shutters to ground floor. Decorative wrought-iron balconettes to first floor and original wrought-iron grilles to blocked up basement windows. Round-headed door opening with moulded stucco surround and painted stone Ionic doorcase. Original timber door with eleven raised-and-fielded panels (partly covered) 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 terrazzo platform with and two terrazzo 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. Façade of original mews building remains to rear.

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