house — Merrion Square

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1765, with small addition to rear having wider five-bay two-storey block to rear of latter. Pitched slate roof to front, and two pitched roofs to rear perpendicular to street, with hips to rear and eastern pitch being narrower. Flemish bond brown-brick parapet with granite coping, shouldered rendered and brown brick chimneystack to west, shared brown brick chimneystack to east with clay pots, concealed gutters and cast-iron downpipes. Flemish bond brown brick walls over granite channelled rusticated ground floor with granite plinth, and rendered walling to basement and to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper levels, with painted rendered reveals and painted granite sills. Segmental-headed granite openings to basement with wrought-iron grilles and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, square-headed and one-over-one pane elsewhere; apparently timber sash windows to rear, including round-headed stairs window. Continuous ornate cast-iron balconette to first floor, and ornate cast-iron balconettes to second floor. Segmental-headed granite door opening with moulded architrave and cornice, plain fanlight and eight-panel timber door with brass door furniture. Granite platform with three steps. Wrought-iron railings enclosing basement area with decorative wrought and cast-iron corner posts on moulded granite plinth. Replacement timber panelled door with adjoining multiple-pane fixed window provides internal basement access below bridged platform. Gabled rendered wall to rear boundary.