house — Merrion Square

Attached five-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1790 as part of terrace of eight (Nos. 80-87), having two and three-storey returns to rear. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof behind brick parapet with granite coping, shouldered rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to party walls, parapet gutters and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, and with slender chimneystack to rear elevation. Flemish bond brown brick walls over granite plinth course, and painted rendered walls to basement; rendered to rear elevation. 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, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere, basement windows having carved granite block-and-start surrounds with wrought-iron grilles. Apparently mainly six-over-six pane timber sash windows to rear elevation, including round-headed stairs window. Round-headed door opening with rendered linings, fluted frieze and cornice on engaged Ionic columns, petal fanlight and eight-panel timber door with beaded muntin, recent mural painting to panels and replacement brass furniture. Granite platform with remnant of cast-iron boot-scrape and five granite steps. Steps and basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on carved granite plinth. Cast-iron coal-hole covers set in granite flags to footpath.