house — Baggot Street Lower

Attached two-bay three-storey former house over basement, built c. 1825 as middle of terrace of three (Nos. 68-70) within longer row, with single-pitched three-storey return to east end of rear. M-profile roof, hipped to east end, with terracotta ridge tiles and parapet with granite coping. Rendered chimneystacks to north party wall with replacement terracotta pots. Flemish bond red brick walling to upper floors on painted masonry plinth course over rusticated basement walling. Square-headed window openings with painted rendered reveals and painted masonry sills. Timber sliding sash windows, late nineteenth-century one-over-one pane to upper floors with profiled horns and eight-over-eight pane to basement with wrought-iron grille; rear has timber sash windows, tripartite to east bay. Round-headed doorway with moulded reveals, doorcase comprising Ionic columns, entablature with fluted frieze and rosettes, plain fanlight, and replacement timber panelled door with recent brass furniture. Shared granite entrance platform with three granite steps to street. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on painted moulded granite plinth. Late nineteenth-century encaustic tiles to basement area, with replacement timber door and uPVC casement window beneath entrance platform. Garden to rear, with modernized two-storey mews building with added dormer storey to rear of plot.