house — Baggot Street Lower

Attached two-bay five-storey former house over basement, built c. 1810, with bow and recent two-storey extension to rear. Now in use as offices. Pitched replacement slate roof to front, hipped to west end, behind rebuilt brick parapet with granite copings; replacement slate hipped roof to rear perpendicular to street, with terracotta ridge tiles, and with recent velux windows and glazed lanterns to middle of roof. Two shouldered rendered chimneystacks to east with terracotta pots, and projecting chimneystack to east end of rear elevation lacking pots. Concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond red brick walling to upper floors, painted rendered band-rusticated ground floor, painted smooth-rendered basement, and smooth rendered rear elevation. Square-headed window openings diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals and painted masonry sills. Timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to third floor and three-over-three pane to top floor, one-over-one pane elsewhere, having cavetto horns to ground floor and basement; Wyatt-style windows to rear. Round-headed principal doorway with pole-moulded reveal, painted masonry doorcase inset with entablature, panelled frieze, Doric columns, three-pane fanlight and replacement six-panel timber door with brass furniture and kick-plate. Granite platform with two steps to street level, and basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings, railings to west side of platform having decorative cast-iron corner post and east side having lamp standard set on decorative wrought-iron corner post, on moulded granite plinth. Rear of plot on Fitzwilliam Lane enclosed by recent steel vehicular gate.