house — Baggot Street Lower

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1810 as one of pair, having two-storey rear return. Now in use as offices. M-profile pitched slate roof, behind brick parapet with granite coping and parapet gutters; two rendered chimneystacks to east party wall with terracotta pots; shared replacement metal downpipe. Flemish bond red brick walling on painted masonry 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. Timber sliding sash windows with profiled horns, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere to front elevation, all with profiled horns; timber sash windows to rear, eight-over-eight pane to ground floor. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor, wrought-iron window-guards to second floor and wrought-iron grilles to basement. Round-headed painted masonry doorcase with pole-moulded rendered reveals, engaged columns with Adamesque Ionic capitals, entablature with fluted frieze and rosettes, decorative leaded petal fanlight, and eight-panel timber door with brass furniture, including ram's-head knob. Granite entrance platform with three steps to street level. Wrought-iron railings enclosing basement area with decorative cast-iron corner posts on moulded granite plinth. Recent mews building to rear plot, bound by rubble stone wall to Fitzwilliam Lane having painted smooth rendered piers flanking steel roller vehicular gate.