Merrion Hotel — Merrion Street Upper

Attached four-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1760. Now in use as part of hotel. Pitched slate roof to front, behind brick parapet with granite coping, and having two hipped roofs to rear perpendicular to street, and with recent dormer window to middle of front roof slope. Long rendered chimneystack to north party wall, brick stack to party wall of front and rendered stack of party wall to rear, with clay pots. Lead rainwater goods to party walls. Flemish bond red brick walls to front elevation on granite plinth course over dressed limestone basement walling, and rendered walls to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, having rendered reveals and painted granite sills, with dressed limestone reveals to basement at front. Timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six pane to first floor, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Front elevation has decorative wrought-iron balconettes to first floor. Front entrance has round-headed limestone doorcase with square-headed door opening, moulded cornice, channelled Doric pilasters, moulded archivolt, ornate peacock's-tail fanlight and six-panel timber door with brass furniture. Sandstone platform with remnant cast-iron boot-scrape, and four granite steps. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on moulded granite plinth. Entrance hall has panelled timber pilasters flanking inside of front door, deep ornate dentillated cornice, and timber panelling below dado rail; stairs hall has open-string staircase with timber balusters and mahogany and brass handrail; vaulted cellar with rubble limestone walls and brick vaulting.