house — Merrion Street Upper

Attached four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1780, having three-bay ground and basement floors and two-bay upper floors, with full-height flat-roofed recent return to rear. Remodelled as apartments c. 1995, as group comprising Nos. 25-29. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to south end, behind rebuilt parapet with granite coping. Yellow brick chimneystacks to party wall to north with rendered base and yellow clay pots. Parapet gutters and shared replacement aluminium downpipes. Refaced Flemish bond brown brick walling on masonry plinth course over ruled-and-lined rendered basement walls; painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted rendered reveals and granite sills, and with plain rendered surrounds to basement and rear. Replacement timber sliding sash windows with vents and profiled horns, three-over-three pane to top floor and beneath entrance platform, and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Front elevation has decorative metal balconettes to first floor. Round-headed painted masonry tripartite front entrance doorcase with engaged panelled and rosetted pilasters, respond pilasters, fish-scale console brackets, running-dog scroll to frieze and replacement leaded batwing fanlight with scalloped archivolt having vegetal ornament, replacement leaded sidelights, and recent six-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrapes and single step to street. Basement area enclosed by cast-iron railings with decorative finials and corner posts on moulded granite plinth.