house — Kildare Street

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1745 as pair with No. 19, having various small additions to rear. Now in use as shop. Flat roof, having rendered parapet with masonry coping, no chimneystacks, and replacement aluminium downpipes. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walling, with painted coping over basement. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, having plain reveals, painted masonry sills and replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, bipartite side-hung timber casements to second floor, replacement uPVC to top floor, and replacement fixed window to basement. Enlarged display window to ground floor with late twentieth-century drip-moulding on brackets and having fixed lettering above; some timber sash windows to rear. Round-headed door opening with moulded surround, recessed doorcase comprising Ionic columns, plain entablature, simple moulded cornice, cast-iron peacock-tail fanlight and replacement timber panelled door. Shared granite entrance platform, with two granite steps from street level, and wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron corner posts on granite plinth enclosing basement area. Late twentieth-century steel round arch and lamp over gateway to basement steps. Set back from main street-line of Kildare Street. Large gabled building further back in plot, parallel to street.