house — Merrion Street Upper

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1780. Remodelled as apartments c. 1995 as part of group (Nos. 25-29). Hipped slate roof, perpendicular to street, behind rebuilt parapet with granite coping. Yellow brick chimneystacks to party wall to south with replacement terracotta pots; parapet gutters and shared replacement aluminium downpipes. Refaced Flemish bond brown brick walling to front elevation on masonry plinth course over painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walls; 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. Replacement timber sliding sash windows with vents and profiled horns, three-over-three pane to top floor and to basement beneath entrance platform, and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Front elevation has steel balconettes to first floor and wrought-iron window-guards to second floor. Elliptical-headed principal doorcase with moulded reveals, painted masonry doorcase, freestanding columns with Scamozzian Ionic capitals, panelled frieze, moulded cornice, replacement leaded batwing fanlight and replacement panelled timber door with recent chrome furniture. Limestone-paved entrance platform with single granite step to street. Basement area enclosed by cast-iron railings with decorative finials and corner posts on moulded granite plinth. Large single-storey building to rear of plot to Nos. 25-26.