house — Mountjoy Square South

Terraced two-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1798, with recent single-bay five-storey hipped extension to rear. Now in use as flats. Pitched roof of unknown material to front, with perpendicular pitch to rear and half-pitch to west. Stepped red brick chimneystack with clay pots to east party wall and rebuilt red brick parapet wall with squared granite coping. Cast-iron rainwater goods breaking through to front (north) elevation. Flemish bond red brick wall with granite plinth course and granite platband over rendered walls to basement. Top floor rebuilt. Rear (south) elevation of red brick in English garden wall bond. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals and granite sills, granite block-and-start surrounds to basement window. Replacement timber sliding sash windows to front (north) elevation, six-over-six pane from basement to second floors, and three-over-three pane to top floor. Cast-iron convex balconettes to first floor, and cast-iron grilles to basement. Original timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation, six-over-six pane to basement, ground, and second floors, nine-over-nine pane to first floor, and three-over-three pane to top floor. Round-headed door opening with gauged brick voussoirs and limestone doorcase comprising replacement timber panelled door flanked by engaged Ionic columns on plinth blocks with responding replacement sidelights, stuccoed lintel forming support to replacement fanlight. Door opens onto limestone-flagged platform, having granite-stepped approach bridging basement area. Approach flanked by wrought-iron railings with cast-iron corner finials on moulded plinth with matching gate giving access to basement via turned stone staircase with recent cast-iron handrail and cast-iron door accessing under-street coal bunker. Rear of site flanked by masonry walls and enclosed by steel gate.