house — North Great George's Street

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1768. Pitched slate roof behind red brick parapet wall with moulded granite coping. Red brick chimneystacks with clay pots shared with adjoining houses. Cast-iron rainwater goods throughout. Flemish bond red brick walls having moulded granite plinth course and platband over rendered walls to basement level. Gauged red brick flat-arched window openings with brick reveals and granite sills. Granite block-and-start surrounds to basement windows. Early replacement timber sliding sash windows throughout,six-over-six pane to basement, ground, first and second floors, and three-over-three pane to third floor. Round-headed door opening within tooled limestone doorcase comprising engaged Tuscan columns on plinth blocks with responding pilasters surmounted by frieze, entablature and open-bed pediment housing original three-pane timber fanlight. Replacement timber panelled door with timber four-pane sidelights, having tooled limestone stone reveals, opening onto granite-flagged platform with cast-iron bootscraper and granite stepped approach bridging basement area. Approach flanked by wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth having cast-iron corner posts. Interior with entrance hall having black and white limestone flagstone floor and Rococo plasterwork to ceiling and cornice. Fanlight to doorway to stair hall. Stairmhall having flagstone floor and curtail balustrade with round-headed window to half landing and Ionic pilasters to architrave. Rear room of ground floor having original floorboards, egg-and-dart cornice with modillions and Kilkenny limestone chimneypiece. Plasterwork removed from ceiling.