house — Baggot Street Lower

Attached two-bay four-storey house over basement, built c. 1795, having single-bay single-storey porch to front and having three-storey return and two-storey addition to rear. Now in use as apartments. Mainly flat roof, with replacement slate slopes front and rear, having brick parapet wall with granite coping. Shouldered rendered chimneystack to east party wall with terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat roof to porch. Flemish bond yellow brick walling with wigged pointing, and painted smooth-rendered basement; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals and painted masonry sills. Timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere, with attached wrought-iron flower box to ground floor and grilles to basement; rear has apparently timber sash windows, tripartite to eastern bay and having round-headed stairs window to western bay. Round-headed door opening having pole-moulded stucco surround, dentillated lintel, sidelights with leaded diamond and roundel motif over panelled aprons, leaded peacock's-tail fanlight and five-panel timber door with brass furniture. Accessed by granite platform with three steps to street level. Entrance platform and basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts and decorative cast-iron lamp standard on moulded granite plinth. Rear enclosed by recent apartments.