house — Merrion Square

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1785, with two and three-storey return to rear. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof to front, behind having brick parapet with granite coping, and with two hipped roofs to rear perpendicular to street, larger over eastern bays; flat and hipped roof to rear return. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks with lipped clay pots. Parapet gutters and shared replacement uPVC downpipe. Flemish bond brown brick walls on painted granite plinth course over painted rendered basement walls. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with raised rendered reveals to ground and first floors, painted granite sills and painted granite block-and-start surrounds to basement openings. Round-headed stairs window opening to rear. Timber sliding sash windows throughout, without horns except for top floor front and rear and second floor rear, which have convex horns; three-over-three pane windows to top floor front and rear and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor of front and rear elevations, wrought-iron window-guards to second floor front, and wrought-iron grilles to basement. Round-headed painted masonry doorcase having rendered linings, engaged Ionic columns and respond pilasters framing geometrically glazed sidelights, stepped fluted frieze and cornice, full-width petal fanlight and timber flat-panel eight-panel door with beaded muntin and brass furniture. Granite platform with cast-iron boot-scrapes and five granite steps to street. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on painted granite plinth. Cast-iron coal-hole covers set in granite flagged pavement. carparking to rear.