house — Baggot Street Lower

Corner-sited two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1825 as one of pair (Nos. 65-66), with three-storey return to east end of rear. Now in use as recording studio with offices. M-profile roof, hipped to east end, concealed by parapet with parapet gutters and replacement granite coping; gabled dormer window to south pitch of rear, and artificial hipped slate roof to return. Two rendered shouldered chimneystacks to north gable with varied clay pots. Cast-iron downpipe to rear. Flemish bond brown brick walling to upper floors on masonry plinth course over smooth rendered basement walling; rendered walling to north side elevation; and Dutch bond brick to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered painted reveals and painted masonry sills. Timber sliding sash windows with convex horns, three-over-three pane to top floor and basement, latter with wrought-iron grille, and six-over-six pane to ground, first and second floors; rear has three-over-three pane to top floor, eight-over-eight pane to second floor, and round-headed six-over-six pane to east bay. Round-headed doorway with moulded reveals, engaged Ionic columns, cornice and fluted frieze with rosettes, leaded cobweb fanlight, and eight-panel timber door with largely recent brass furniture. Shared granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and two steps to street. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on moulded granite plinth. Plainly detailed recent timber door and fixed timber window beneath entrance platform; segmental-headed opening beneath entrance platform. Coursed rubble stone boundary wall to northwest. Yard and recent flat-roofed mews buildings to rear.