house — Mountjoy Square East

Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built, c.1796, with six-bay two-storey over basement brick-walled rear return. Built as one of three houses to centre of terrace lining east side of Mountjoy Square. Now in commercial use. Double-pile artificial slate roof, pitched to front pile with pair of hipped roofs set perpendicular to rear. Stepped rendered brick chimneystacks with clay pots to both party walls. Roof hidden behind parapet wall with coved granite coping. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with original tuck pointing to moulded granite plinth course above granite ashlar basement walls. Yellow brick walling to rear elevation. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows throughout, six-over-six pane to lower floors and three-over-three pane to top floor. Curved cast-iron balconettes to the first floor with wrought-iron grilles to basement windows. Round-headed stair light to rear elevation with replacement timber sliding sash nine-over-six pane window, spoked to upper sash, six-over-six pane to lower floors, and three-over-three pane to top floor. Gauged brick round-arched door opening with tripartite Portland stone doorcase. Replacement hardwood panelled door flanked by engaged Ionic columns on plinth bases, plain sidelights and responding quarter-engaged pilasters supporting stepped fluted and dentillated lintel cornice embellished with paterae and original leaded cobweb fanlight with fluted surround. Door opens onto granite platform with two cast-iron bootscrapers and three granite steps bridging basement. Platform and basement area enclosed by original wrought-iron railings and cast-iron corner posts on moulded granite plinth wall. Matching iron gate gives basement access via steel steps. Three cast-iron coal-hole covers set in granite kerbstones. Return has hipped slate roof, red brick walls, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with iron grilles and lean-to ground floor canopy, and margined clerestorey and blind first floor windows to western half. Return abutted by recent flat-roofed three-storey rendered structure. Interior of house has decorative frieze to hall and elaborate interior to doorway comprising husk and other ornamental devices.