house — Merrion Street Upper

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1800, having two-bay two-storey return to rear of northern two bays. Now in commercial office use. Pitched slate roof to front, behind rebuilt red brick parapet with concrete coping, and two roofs to rear perpendicular to street, pitched roof to southern two bays and hipped roof to northern bay; hipped roof to return. Projecting rendered chimneystack between openings to rear gabled bays, and further rendered stack to party wall with No. 33 to north and yellow brick to south gable, with terracotta pots. Concealed rainwater goods. Front elevation has Flemish bond red brick walling on granite plinth over ruled-and-lined rendered basement walls; rear elevation and return are rendered. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with granite sills. Timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns, front having nine-over-six pane to ground floor, nine-over-nine pane to first floor, six-over-six pane to second floor and basement and three-over-three pane to top floor; rear elevation appears to have similar arrangement. Front elevation has curvilinear timber trim to ground floor window heads, wrought-iron grilles to basement, and decorative cast-iron vignettes to first floor. Round-headed doorcase with engaged Adamesque Ionic columns, stepped fluted entablature with rosettes, leaded geometric sidelights, elaborate leaded cobweb fanlight in scalloped archivolt, and eight-panel timber door with beaded muntin and brass furniture. Granite flagged platform bridging basement with cast-iron boot-scrape and four steps to street. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on moulded granite plinth, with separate wrought-iron gate to basement and replacement timber glazed and panelled door below entrance platform.