Kildare Street Hotel

Attached four-storey pair of two-bay former houses over basement, built c. 1810, being middle and north of terrace of three. Now amalgamated and in use as hotel and having flat-roofed single-storey extensions to rear. M-profile slate roof, hipped to north end and gabled to south, concealed by brick parapet with masonry coping; replacement brick chimneystacks to south party wall and rendered chimneystacks to centre, with clay pots, later modern brick chimneystack to rear; parapet gutters and cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Flemish bond red brick walling, painted ashlar walling to ground floor (apparently refaced), and painted smooth rendered to basement; yellow/brown brick walling to rear, with smooth rendered top floor. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals, painted masonry sills, latter continuous to ground floor. Timber sliding sash windows with horns, six-over-six pane to ground floor and three-over-three pane to top floor, and having some historic glass, with recent secondary glazing to upper floors. Victorian decorative cast-iron balconettes to middle floors. Some window surrounds rebuilt in red brick to second floor of rear. Principal entrance spans northern two bays and has recent glazed timber doors in segmental-headed opening, with recent canopy. Plainly detailed square-headed door opening to south with blocked overlight and recent glazed timber doors. Basement openings largely infilled. Main entrance accessed by painted masonry steps, having recent metal railings to sides and nineteenth-century iron lamps on recent uprights. Steel steps to secondary entrance flanked by basement areas, largely covered by recent decking and bounded by replacement metal railings.