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-storey rear return. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof to front part, hipped to south, behind refaced brick parapet with granite coping and parapet gutters, and having two roofs perpendicular to street to rear, north roof being fully hipped and south having curved hip to east. Rebuilt shouldered brick chimneystacks to party walls with rendered base to north and largely replacement clay pots. Flemish bond red brick walling on moulded granite plinth course over painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling; rebuilt in brown brick to top floor. Wrought-iron fixtures for vertical banner between western two bays of upper floors. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted rendered reveals and replacement granite sills, and having granite block-and-start surrounds to basement openings. Timber sliding sash windows with horns, three-over-three pane to top floor, nine-over-six pane to first floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Continuous decorative cast-iron balcony to first floor and wrought-iron grilles to basement. Apparently timber sliding sash windows to rear. 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, leaded petal fanlight with swagged and fluted surround, geometric-motif leaded sidelights and ten-panel timber door with beaded muntin and brass furniture. Shared granite platform with iron boot-scrape and five granite steps. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on moulded granite plinth. Cast-iron coal-hole cover set in granite flags to pavement.