house — Merrion Square

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built 1828, having two-storey over basement return to rear with canted-bay to west, and further lower addition to north. Now in use as offices. M-profile pitched roof with some skylights, hipped to east ends, with rebuilt brick parapet having granite coping; rendered chimneystacks to party wall at west, shouldered to front part, with clay pots; concealed rainwater goods; hipped slate roof to return and lean-to part of addition. Flemish bond red brick walls on granite plinth over painted rendered walls to basement; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted rendered reveals and granite sills above basement level, and having exposed block-and-start granite surrounds to basement. Timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-nine pane to ground and first floors, six-over-six pane to basement and second floor and three-over-three pane to top floor. Rear has similar fenestration, with twelve-over-twelve pane round-headed stairs window, tripartite first floor window and bipartite ground floor window. Decorative wrought-iron balconettes to first floor. Elliptical-headed door opening with torus-moulded architrave, Doric columns, plain entablature, leaded radial fanlight and ten-panel timber door with brass door furniture. Granite platform with wrought-iron boot-scrape and three granite steps. Wrought-iron railings enclosing basement area with decorative wrought and cast-iron corner posts on moulded granite plinth. Interior has reeded cornices, chimneypieces and neo-Classical ceiling centrepieces. Rear of plot has garden to middle and later buildings to rear, with recent stone-clad wall to rear boundary.