house — Merrion Square

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1790 apparently as one in terrace of seventeen, having single-storey return to rear. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof to front, behind brick parapets with granite copings, and two hipped roofs at rear perpendicular to street, larger over eastern bays. Brick chimneystacks to party walls with clay pots. Replacement rainwater goods to rear elevation. Flemish bond brown brick walls on painted granite plinth course, with painted rendered walls to basement. 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 windows. Timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to basement and replacement one-over-one pane above (top floor front elevation windows boarded up at time of survey). Decorative wrought-iron balconettes to first floor, and wrought-iron grilles to basement. Round-headed principal doorway with rendered linings, fluted frieze and cornice, engaged Ionic columns with respond pilasters flanking stained-glass sidelights, plain fanlight and ten-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and five granite steps. Wrought-iron railings enclosing basement area with decorative cast-iron posts on carved granite plinth. Cast-iron coal-hole covers set in granite flags to footpath. Rear of plot has small garden, otherwise carparking, boundary to lane is concrete block wall with sheet metal vehicular gate.