house — Baggot Street Lower

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1810 as pair with No. 24, having gabled rear elevation with two and three-storey returns. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof to front, hipped to east end, behind having brick parapet with granite coping, and pitched roof to rear perpendicular to street. Shared rendered chimneystack to west party wall, projecting to centre of rear elevation, with yellow clay pots. Parapet gutters and shared replacement cast-iron downpipe with trefoil fixings. Flemish bond red brick walling, with wigged pointing to ground and first floors, rebuilt to top floor, on granite plinth course over painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals and granite sills. Replacement timber sliding sash windows with profiled horns, six-over-six pane to basement with wrought-iron grilles, and one-over-one pane elsewhere, with decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Rear has timber sash windows. Round-headed painted masonry doorcase comprising engaged columns and respond pilasters with Adamesque Ionic capitals, stepped cornice, fluted frieze with rosettes, plain fanlight, leaded sidelights, and ten-panel timber door with brass furniture. Cement-rendered entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and three steps to street. Wrought-iron railings enclosing basement area with decorative cast-iron corner posts on moulded granite plinth. Rear of plot fronting Fitzwilliam Lane enclosed by rubble stone wall with recent brick upper section and steel roller vehicular gate.