house — Merrion Square

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1790 as one of three (Nos. 46-48), having series of two-storey returns to rear with hipped slate roofs. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof to front span, behind brick parapet with granite coping, and two unequal hipped roofs to rear perpendicular to street and with larger to south. Rebuilt red brick chimneystack on rendered base to north party wall with clay pots and shouldered rendered chimneystack to south with octagonal clay pots. Concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond red brick walling on painted moulded masonry plinth course over painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling; rendered walling to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted rendered reveals and granite sills, and with painted block-and-start granite surrounds to basement openings. Timber sliding sash windows, lacking horns to basement, profiled horns elsewhere, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor and wrought-iron grilles to basement. Elliptical-headed painted masonry doorcase with moulded render reveal, engaged Adamesque Ionic columns and respondent quarter-pilasters, dentillated cornice and fluted frieze with rosettes, decorative batwing fanlight with fluted architrave, replacement reeded glass sidelights and replacement eight-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with decorative cast-iron boot-scrape and three steps to street. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings having decorative cast-iron elements on moulded granite plinth. Replacement timber door beneath entrance platform, accessed via concrete steps. Cast-iron coal-hole cover to pavement. Rear of plot has carparking, recent two-storey building straddling plots of Nos. 46-47, and small yard bounded to lane by calp limestone wall with vehicular and pedestrian entrances having recent brick arches.