Irish Institute of Purchasing and Materials Manage — Mount Street Lower

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1815 as part of terrace (Nos. 15-21), having bowed bay to west end of rear elevation. Converted for use as offices. Pitched roof to front span, hipped to east end, behind brick parapet with granite coping, and two unequal hipped roofs to rear, larger over bow, and having terracotta ridge tiles. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to east party wall with clay pots. Parapet gutters, and shared replacement cast-iron downpipe. Flemish bond buff brick walling with recent wigged pointing on granite plinth course over painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals and granite sills. Timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor, hornless to west and ogee-horned to east, six-over-six pane hornless to middle floors, replacement one-over-one pane ogee-horned to ground floor, and eight-over-eight pane hornless to basement with steel grille. Round-headed door opening, with painted moulded surround, painted masonry doorcase comprising moulded cornice, fluted frieze with rosettes over engaged columns with Adamesque Ionic capitals, decorative leaded peacock's tail fanlight, raised-and-fielded ten-panel timber door with brass furniture and recent polished granite step. Shared granite entrance platform with decorative cast-iron boot-scrapes and five steps to street. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth; mild-steel steps to basement with plain door opening beneath entrance platform. Recent apartment block to rear half of plot of Nos. 17-21.