house — Merrion Square

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1790 apparently as one in terrace of seventeen, having full-height bow to two bays of rear, third bay having six-bay two-storey return having three-bay link to north with single-bay further storey over. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof to front, hipped to east end, behind brick parapet with granite coping, and with two hipped roofs to rear perpendicular to street, larger over bow. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to west end with clay pots. Return has brick walls, pitched slate roof to main block and flat roofs to remainder. Flemish bond red brick walls to front elevation on granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement; yellow brick walls to rear over rendered basement, having replacement red brick arches to top two floors. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals and painted granite sills; carved granite block-and-start surrounds to basement. Timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six pane to first floor at front and to ground and first floors at rear, three-over-three pane to top floor front and rear, and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Wrought-iron grille to basement at front and wrought-iron balconettes to first floor at rear. Round-headed principal doorway with rendered linings, stepped fluted frieze and entablature, engaged Ionic columns with respond pilasters flanking leaded fanlights, elaborate batwing fanlight, cavetto-moulded architrave, and eleven-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and five bull's-nose granite steps. Wrought-iron railings enclosing basement area with decorative cast-iron posts on carved granite plinth. Replacement timber panelled door accesses basement interior below bridged platform. Cast-iron coal-hole covers set in granite flags to footpath. carparking to rear of house and recent building to rear part of plot.