house — Baggot Street Lower

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1810 as one of pair, having gabled rear elevation with three-storey return. Now in use as offices, with shop to basement. Pitched slate roof to front, behind rebuilt brick parapet with granite coping, and pitched artificial slate roof to rear perpendicular to street; shouldered rendered chimneystacks to party walls and to centre of rear elevation with yellow clay pots, and concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond red brick walling with wigged pointing over granite plinth course above painted smooth-rendered basement walling; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals and granite sills. Timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns, six-over-six pane to ground floor and basement and one-over-one pane elsewhere; timber sash windows to rear. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor, wrought-iron guard-rails to top two floors, and wrought-iron grilles to basement. Round-headed painted masonry doorcase having square-headed door opening, engaged columns and respond pilasters with Adamesque Ionic capitals, stepped cornice, fluted frieze with rosettes, plain fanlight and sidelights, and ten-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and three steps to street level. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative corner posts on moulded granite plinth. Mild-steel steps to basement and recent door beneath platform. Rear plot has recent mews building, and painted rubble stone boundary wall with steel vehicular gate fronting Fitzwilliam Lane.