house — Merrion Square

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1762, with two-bay first floor, and having two-storey return to rear with one canted-bay to east elevation. Pitched slate roof to front part, and two pitched roofs to rear perpendicular to street, narrower to east and having hips to rear, with reconstructed Flemish bond brown brick parapet with granite coping, shouldered rendered chimneystacks with clay pots, and concealed gutters; cast-iron downpipe to west; hipped slate roof to return with chimneystack. Flemish bond brown brick walls, reconstructed at top floor level, with painted granite plinth; rendered walling to basement and to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted rendered reveals, painted granite sills, and timber sliding sash windows, one-over-one pane to ground floor, six-over-six pane to second floor and replacement timber casements to other floors; apparently timber sash windows to rear with round-headed stairs window to east bay. Continuous decorative cast-iron balcony to first floor, and wrought-iron window-guards to top floor. Round-headed door opening with channelled rusticated pilasters and console brackets supporting open-bed pediment, and having lugged moulded architrave, plain fanlight and six-panel timber door with brass door furniture. Granite platform with three granite steps. Wrought-iron railings enclosing basement area with decorative wrought and cast-iron corner posts on moulded granite plinth wall. Replacement timber panelled door with adjoining fixed window provides internal basement access below bridged platform. Interior noted by Casey (2005) as retaining some original cornices and joinery.