National Gallery of Ireland — South Leinster Street

Attached four-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1760, remodelled c. 1850. Fully abutted to rear. Now in as offices. M-profile pitched roof, rear part comprising two differently-pitched roofs; tall shouldered rendered chimneystacks to party walls with brick corbelling and clay pots; painted moulded rendered banding to parapet with roundel motifs and terminated by rendered piers and finials. Concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond red brick walling, tuck-pointed and colour-washed, with channel rusticated painted masonry ground floor, painted rendered basement with granite coping, and stylized painted rendered strip quoins to ends of facade with geometric motif. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted rendered reveals, granite sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening within doorcase having engaged Doric columns supporting open-bed pediment with replacement radial fanlight, and with replacement six-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite platform bridging basement, with three granite steps to street level. Basement area enclosed by cast-iron railings with decorative finials on granite plinth wall, curving into entrance steps. Cast-iron gate provides access to basement, with recent steel staircase.