house — Merrion Square

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1790 as one of terrace of four (Nos. 37-40), with bowed rear elevation and two and three-storey return. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof to front part, hipped to north end, behind refaced light red brick parapet with granite coping, and having two roofs perpendicular to street to rear, south roof being fully hipped and north having curved hip to east. Shared brick chimneystack to south with rendered base and clay pots; parapet gutters. Flemish bond red brick walling on painted moulded masonry plinth over painted rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted rendered reveals and painted granite sills, and having painted granite block-and-start surrounds to basement openings. Timber sliding sash windows with simple horns, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Apparently timber sliding sash windows to rear. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor and steel grilles to basement. Round-headed tripartite door opening, with painted masonry doorcase comprising engaged Adamesque Ionic columns with respond quarter-pilasters, stepped entablature with fluted and rosetted frieze, radial fanlight with swagged and fluting to front face of archivolt, geometric-motif sidelights and ten-panel timber door with beaded muntin and brass furniture. Shared granite platform with decorative cast-iron boot-scrape and five granite steps, Wrought-iron railings enclosing basement area, with decorative cast-iron posts and decorative wrought-iron lamp standard, on moulded granite plinth. Stone flags to basement area. Cast-iron coal-hole cover set in granite flags to pavement.