house — Merrion Square

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1790 as part of terrace of eight (Nos. 80-87), with full-height rear return occupying width of plot, and additional single-pitched two-storey timber-framed abutment. Now in use as offices. Pitched roof to front, behind rebuilt brick parapet with granite coping and parapet gutters, and having two hipped roofs to rear perpendicular to street, wider eastern shared with neighbouring property. Shouldered chimneystacks, rendered to west with yellow clay pots and brick to east with terracotta pots. Flemish bond brown brick walls, rebuilt to top floor, and having granite plinth course over rendered basement walls. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals and painted granite sills. Single round-headed opening to rear, partly blocked. Largely replacement timber sliding sash windows with profiled horns, six-over-six pane to basement and second floor rear, and one-over-one pane elsewhere, with carved granite block-and-start surrounds, painted granite sills and wrought-iron grilles to basement. Round-headed limestone doorcase having moulded linings, cornice and fluted frieze on engaged Ionic columns, plain fanlight and eight-panel timber door with beaded munition and replacement brass furniture. Granite platform with cast-iron Anthemion boot-scrape and five granite steps. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on carved granite plinth, latter pierced by decorative cast-iron grilles. Yard and carparking to rear of plot.