house — Merrion Square

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1790 as part of terrace of eight (Nos. 80-87), having two-storey return to rear. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof to front, behind brown brick parapet with granite coping, and two hipped roofs to rear perpendicular to street, that to west higher and shared with neighbouring property. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to east with clay pots. Concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond brown brick walls with moulded granite plinth over painted rendered basement walls. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with plain reveals, soldier arches, painted granite sills, and with granite block-and-start surrounds to basement openings. Round-headed stairs window opening to rear elevation. Timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six pane to first floor, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere to front elevation; fenestration and glazing pattern repeated to rear elevation. Decorative wrought-iron balconettes to first floor front and rear. Segmental-headed Portland limestone door opening with moulded architrave, Ionic columns, fluted frieze and moulded entablature, radial fanlight and eight-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite platform with cast-iron boot-scrapes and five granite steps. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on moulded granite plinth. Timber glazed door and multiple-pane fixed window to basement entrance. Plaque to front wall reads 'Senator William Butler Yeats 1865-1939 Poet & Playwright Lived Here 1922-1928.' carparking to rear.