house — Baggot Street Lower

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1800 as one of terrace of three (Nos. 37-39). Now in use as offices. M-profile pitched slate roof, behind brick parapet with granite coping, with skylights to south slope of rear pitch, and having rendered chimneystacks with clay pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods to west end. Flemish bond brown brick walls over channelled rendered walls to ground floor on granite plinth course over painted rendered walls to basement; rendered to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals, painted granite sill course to first floor and painted granite sills elsewhere. Timber sliding sash windows, eight-over-eight pane to basement and top floors, one-over-one pane to ground and first floors and six-over-six pane to second floor; rear elevation has six-over-six pane to top floor and to round-headed stairs windows to first and second floors of east bay and rest of west bay has eight-over-eight pane windows. Wrought-iron balconettes to first and second floors; steel fire escape to rear of east bay. Round-headed door opening with rendered linings, fluted frieze and cornice on engaged Ionic columns, elaborate batwing fanlight and ten-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite platform with two granite steps, flanked by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area. Cast-iron coal-hole cover set in granite flag to footpath. Rear of plot has carparking, with vehicular entrance to boundary wall to lane.