house — Merrion Square

Attached three-bay four-storey house over basement, built c. 1790 apparently as one in terrace of seventeen, having bow to two eastern bays at rear, and four-bay two-storey return to third bay with further storey to north end. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof to front, behind brick parapet with granite coping, and two hipped roofs to rear perpendicular to street, larger over bow. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks with clay pots. Flemish bond red brick walls with painted granite plinth course over painted rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with raised rendered reveals and painted granite sills; carved granite block-and-start surrounds and wrought-iron grilles to basement. Timber sliding sash windows, front elevation having six-over-six pane to ground floor and basement and replacement one-over-one pane elsewhere; and rear elevation having tripartite windows, three-over-three-pane to top floor and six-over-six pane to lower floors. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor and wrought-iron window-guards to top two floors. Round-headed principal doorway with rendered linings, fluted frieze and cornice, engaged Ionic columns with respond pilasters framing stained-glass sidelights, elaborate petal fanlight with projecting lantern, and eleven-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and five bull-nosed granite steps. Wrought-iron railings to basement area with decorative cast-iron posts on carved granite plinth. Cast-iron coal-hole covers set in granite flags to footpath. Garden and carparking to rear, and recent two-storey building on site of former mews house to Fitzwilliam Lane.