house — Baggot Street Lower

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1810 as one of pair, having full-height and two-storey returns to rear. Now in use as offices. Re-slated M-profile roof, half-hipped to east end, behind rebuilt brick parapet with granite coping; shared shouldered rendered chimneystacks to west with terracotta pots; parapet gutters, and shared cast-iron downpipe to east. Flemish bond red brick walling to front elevation with granite plinth over painted smooth-rendered basement walling; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals and painted masonry sills. Replacement timber bipartite mullion-and-transom casements to ground and first floors, replacement uPVC to top floor, recent timber windows to second floor, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to basement with wrought-iron grilles; rear has tripartite timber sash windows to top and ground floors and casement windows to middle floors. Decorative bowed cast-iron balconettes to first floor, and wrought-iron window-guards to top floor. Round-headed entrance has pole-moulded stucco reveals, plain entablature over Ionic columns, fanlight and replacement nine-panel timber door. Granite entrance platform with three steps to street level. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative corner posts on moulded granite plinth. Recent apartment block to rear of plot.