house — Kildare Street

Attached four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1760, rebuilt c. 1870, with three-bay ground floor and two-bay upper floors, and having slightly lower return to south end of rear. Now in commercial office use. Slate roof, hipped to centre, single-pitched to north and sharing hipped roof to south with No. 31; brick parapet to front with granite coping over cogged brick course, with parapet gutters; brick chimneystacks to north; and cast-iron hopper and downpipe. Flemish bond red brick walling, with painted smooth render to basement having painted masonry coping over; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings with patent reveals, granite sills and replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, diminishing in height to upper floors and having profiled horns. Wrought-iron balconettes to first floor openings with decorative cast-iron side rails. Replacement timber casement window to basement. Elliptical-headed doorcase with brick archivolt, moulded reveals, painted timber panelled pilasters, foliate scrolls, lintel cornice, plain fanlight, and two-panel timber door with round-headed bolection-moulded panels. Entrance approached by single step from street, with concrete entrance platform. Basement area bounded by decorative cast-iron railings over painted masonry plinth.