house — Mountjoy Square East

Corner-sited end-of-terrace two-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1815, as one of six similar houses, with three-storey return. Double-pile slate roof with front pitch parallel to street and hipped to south with two hipped sections set perpendicular to rear. Stepped brick chimneystacks with clay pots rise from north gabled elevation. Roof hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with chamfered granite plinth course over random rubblestone basement walls. Red brick walls to rear and north side elevations. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with granite sills, patent rendered reveals and replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, tripartite to ground floor with clustered colonettes to mullions. Windows to first and second floors possibly original. Decorative wrought-iron balcony spanning first floor. Two tripartite windows to rear elevation and round-headed stairs window, all having timber sliding sash windows. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with moulded stucco surround and painted stone Ionic doorcase. Replacement timber panelled door flanked by full-height sidelights and fronted by Ionic columns on plinth bases supporting lintel cornice and replacement fanlight. Door opens onto shared granite platform and four granite steps bridging basement. Platform and basement enclosed by original wrought-iron railings set on moulded granite plinth wall to street with iron lamp support. Matching iron gate provides basement access via steel steps. Red brick structure to north basement, built c.1980. North gable and rear site enclosed by replacement brick wall with steel vehicular gates.