house — Merrion Street Upper

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1780 as one in unequal pair with No. 30, having two-storey return to rear. Now in commercial office use. M-profile pitched roof, hipped to north end, having rebuilt parapet with projecting masonry coping, brick chimneystacks to party walls with terracotta pots, concealed gutters, cast-iron hopper and downpipe. Flemish bond red brick walling to front elevation, rebuilt to top floor, on granite plinth over ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling; rendered to rear elevation and return. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals and granite sills. Timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns, nine-over-six pane to first floor, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Basement to front has wrought-iron grilles, and first floor front has decorative cast-iron balconettes, with scalloped and scrolled cast-iron trim to window heads. Round-headed doorcase with moulded reveals, pro-style Ionic columns, entablature with fluted frieze and rosettes, leaded batwing fanlight and eleven-panel timber door with weatherboard and plain brass furniture. Granite flagged platform bridging basement with four steps to street. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on moulded granite plinth, and having wrought-iron gate and concrete steps to basement area, and replacement timber glazed and sheeted door beneath entrance platform.