house — Mountjoy Square East

Terraced three-bay four-storey hosue over exposed basement, built c.1815, as one of six identical houses. Double-pile hipped tiled roof with cruciform lead valley. Roof hidden behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping and stepped rendered and brick chimneystacks to both party walls. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with iron tie-plates. Chamfered granite plinth course above painted rendered basement walls. Cement rendered walls to rear elevation. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to all floors. Replacement iron balcony spanning first floor. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with rendered surround and painted stone Ionic doorcase. Replacement timber panelled door flanked by plain rendered jambs and Ionic columns on plinth bases supporting lintel cornice and replacement fanlight. Door opens onto granite platform with cast-iron bootscraper and four 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 with matching iron gate. Rear site developed along with Nos. 19 and 20.