house — Baggot Street Lower

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1810 as one of pair with No. 33. Now in office use. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped at east end, behind brick parapet with concrete coping, and having dormer window to south slope of rear pitch; shouldered rendered chimneystack to west with terracotta pots; and concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond brown brick walling on painted masonry plinth over painted rendered basement walls. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted masonry reveals and painted granite sills. Timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows with ogee horns, having decorative cast-iron vignette to ground floor, decorative wrought-iron balconettes and secondary glazing to first floor, and wrought-iron window-guards to second floor; rear has timber sash windows, tripartite to west bay and round-headed to east bay. Round-headed doorcase having cavetto-moulded architrave, Adamesque Ionic columns, fluted frieze with rosettes and cornice, plain fanlight in moulded architrave and eight-panel timber door with beaded muntin, brass furniture and decorative moulding to raised-and-fielded panels. Granite paved platform bridging basement with cast-iron boot-scrape and two granite bull-nosed steps to street level. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on painted moulded granite plinth. Wrought-iron gate and recent steel steps to basement. Modernized two-storey mews building to rear, fronting Little Fitzwilliam Place.