house — Parnell Square East

Terraced two-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1755, having recent two-storey red brick extension to rear. Now in use as guest house. Built as pair with No. 5. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles behind rebuilt parapet wall with squared granite coping. Rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to party walls, shared with adjoining houses. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods throughout. Flemish bond red brick walls with lime pointing, granite plinth course and granite platband over rendered ruled-and-lined wall to basement level. Red brick elevation to rear. Camber-headed window openings with gauged red brick voussoirs, reveals and granite sills. Historic, c.1830, replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to basement, first, second and third floors, and tripartite Wyatt window to ground floor. Cast-iron grilles to interior reveals of first storey openings. Additional one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to north of doorcase. Round-headed door opening to painted stone doorcase comprising glazed timber panelled door with stone reveals flanked by rusticated pilasters on plinth blocks supporting fluted corbel brackets with open-bed pediment housing original cobweb fanlight, set within rusticated surrounds. Door opens onto granite flagged platform with cast-iron lamp post, two cast-iron bootscrapers and three nosed granite steps bridging basement area. Approach flanked by nineteenth-century wrought-iron railings on granite plinth with matching gate. Shared basement with No. 5 having Victorian tiles. Interior subdivided into hotel rooms and heavily altered. Geometric tile to entrance hall, c.1870, fanlight with timber tracery and heavy but simple modillion cornice. Doric pilaster reveals to archway of stair hall having curtail and ramped handrail. Half-landing retaining upper portion of former round-headed window with egg-and-dart cornice and large corbel bracket keystone with garland. First floor rear room having good neo-Classical ceiling with sphinxes to corners and simple urn and swag cornice.