house — Baggot Street Lower

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1845, having flat-roofed two-storey return to east end of rear. Now in use as offices. M-profile roof, hipped to east end, having brick parapet with granite copings, shared brown brick chimneystacks with clay pots and rendered base to north party wall, and concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond brown brick walling on painted granite plinth over painted rendered basement. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted rendered reveals, painted granite sills and brick voussoirs. Timber sliding sash windows with four-over-four pane windows to ground and first floors with cavetto horns, two-over-two pane to second and third floors with convex horns, and replacement timber casement window to basement. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to ground, first and second floors, and wrought-iron window-guards to top floor. Apparently timber sash windows to rear, three-over-three pane and two-over-two pane to top floor and six-over-six pane below, tripartite to ground and first floors. Recessed round-headed doorcase with moulded surround, limestone freestanding Ionic columns, entablature with fluted frieze, decorative cobweb fanlight and recent four-panel painted timber door with brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with decorative cast-iron boot-scrape and two granite steps. Wrought-iron railings on painted moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area, with decorative cast-iron posts. Wrought-iron gate leads to quarter-turn masonry stairs with winders and simple iron handrail accessing basement. Recent timber glazed door to basement level. Yard and carparking to rear.