house — Baggot Street Lower

Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1845 as one in pair with No. 63, with flat-roof two-storey return to west end of rear. Now in use as offices. M-profile roof, hipped to west end, having brick parapet having parapet gutters and granite copings, shared brown brick chimneystack having mixed pots to south party wall and with top section rebuilt in red brick to front, and cast-iron downpipes. Flemish bond brown brick walling on painted granite plinth over painted rendered ruled-and-lined basement. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted rendered reveals, painted granite sills and brick voussoirs. Timber sliding sashes with cavetto horns (ogee to ground floor), three-over-three pane to top floor, ten-over-ten pane to basement and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to ground, first and second floors. Apparently timber sash windows to rear, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane below, tripartite to ground and first floors and with round-headed stairs window to west bay. Round-headed doorcase with moulded reveal, painted masonry freestanding Ionic columns, plain entablature, leaded peacock's tail fanlight and nine-panel timber door with brass furniture, including figurative knocker. Granite entrance platform bridging basement, with two granite steps and basal remains of cast-iron boot-scrape. Decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area. Cast-iron gate and recent steel staircase accessing basement. Recent timber glazed door to basement level. carparking behind, with recent two-storey building and yard to rear end of plot.