Ozanam House — Mountjoy Square West

Three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1790, with full-height bow to rear. Houses to south demolished. Built as one of pair with No. 54 to north. Now in office use. Double-pile pitched natural slate roof with pair of hipped rear sections set perpendicular to rear, that to north shared with neighbouring house. Pair of rendered chimneystacks with clay pots rise from south gable wall. Roof hidden behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to front elevation. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to moulded granite plinth course above rendered basement walls. Painted rendered walls to south gable and rear elevations. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows throughout, six-over-six pane to lower floors and three-over-three pane to top floor. Wrought-iron balconettes to first floor and granite surrounds to basement windows. Gauged brick round-arched door opening with painted Portland limestone Ionic doorcase. Replacement timber panelled door flanked by engaged Ionic columns on plinth blocks, plain sidelights and responding quarter engaged Ionic pilasters supporting stepped lintel cornice with wheat-sheaf motifs and plain fanlight. Door opens onto concrete platform with pair of original cast-iron bootscrapers and four nosed granite steps bridging basement. Common platform with No. 54 divided by wrought-iron railing. Platform and basement enclosed by original wrought-iron railings and cast-iron corner posts set on moulded granite plinth wall. Matching iron gate provides access to basement area via steel steps. Brick wine vaults to basement. Rear elevation abutted by steel fire escape and two-storey over basement rendered return with flat roof. Ionic screen separates entrance hall from stairs hall.