house — Merrion Square

Corner-sited three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1790 as part of terrace of eight (Nos. 80-87), west gable elevation being blank, and having two-bay return to Upper Merrion Street. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roofs, behind brick parapet with granite coping, having return roof perpendicular to street. Brick chimneystack to west with terracotta pots, and shouldered rendered chimneystack to east with yellow clay pots. Parapet gutters, cast-iron hopper and downpipe to west, and shared replacement uPVC to east. Flemish bond brown brick walling over painted granite plinth course, and painted rendered walls to basement; rendered walls to east elevation of return. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with raised rendered reveals and painted granite sills. Timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six pane to first floor with cast-iron balconettes, three-over-three pane to top floor, and six-over-six pane elsewhere with painted carved granite block-and-start surrounds to basement. Apparently mainly six-over-six pane timber sash windows to east elevation of return. Round-headed main doorway with painted rendered linings, fluted frieze and cornice on engaged Ionic columns, and having petal fanlight and eight-panel timber door with beaded muntin and brass furniture. Granite platform with remnants of cast-iron boot-scrape, and having five granite steps. Wrought-iron railings enclosing basement area with some decorative cast-iron posts on carved granite plinth. Cast-iron coal-hole cover set in granite flag to footpath.