house — Baggot Street Lower

Attached two-bay three-storey former house over basement, built c. 1825 as one of terrace of three (Nos. 68-70) within longer row, with single-pitched three-storey return to west end of rear. M-profile roof, hipped to west end, behind parapet with granite coping. Rendered chimneystacks to south party wall with yellow clay pots. Flemish bond red brick walling to upper floors on granite plinth course over ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings with painted rendered reveals, painted masonry sills and late nineteenth-century one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with convex horns to basement and ogee horns elsewhere. Replacement and possibly some timber sash windows to rear. 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 cast-iron boot-scrape and three granite steps to street. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on painted moulded granite plinth. Mild steel steps to basement with replacement door and replacement uPVC casement window beneath entrance platform. Two-storey flat-roofed building at rear of plot.