house — Mountjoy Square East

Terraced two-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built, c.1795, as one of six. Now in commercial office use. Double-pile slate roof, pitched to front with two hipped rear projections. Roof hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping and rendered brick chimneystacks with clay pots to both party walls. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond rebuilt to top two floors. Chamfered granite plinth course above painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walls. Cement rendered walls to rear elevation. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to lower floors, three-over-three pane to top floor, and twelve-over-twelve to basement. Decorative bowed wrought-iron balconettes to first floor and wrought-iron grille to basement. Timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation with round-headed stairs window. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with moulded stucco surround and painted stone Ionic doorcase. Original timber door with eleven raised-and-fielded panels flanked by plain rendered jambs and Ionic columns on plinth bases supporting lintel cornice and replacement fanlight. Door opens onto granite platform and five granite steps bridging basement. Platform and basement enclosed by original wrought-iron railings and cast-iron corner posts set on moulded granite plinth wall to street. Rear elevation abutted by narrow full-height rendered return. Further full-width two-storey brick building forms boundary to Charles Lane.