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George Bernard Shaw Birthplace Museum — Synge Street

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George Bernard Shaw Birthplace Museum — Synge Street
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Terraced two-bay two-storey former house over raised basement, built c. 1840. Return to rear (east) elevation. Part of terrace of six similar buildings. Now in use as museum. M-profile pitched roof hidden behind brick parapet with cut granite coping, brick chimneystacks having clay pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Brown brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls, with carved stone plaque, and cut granite plinth course over lined-and-ruled rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings having raised rendered reveals and granite sills. Replacement windows. Segmental-headed door opening with moulded render surround, carved timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters, scrolled fluted brackets and stepped cornice. Plain fanlight and timber panelled door. Nosed granite steps having cast-iron boot-scrape and coal-hole cover to limestone and granite platform. Cast-iron railings with spoked finials and decorative collars, set on cut granite plinth wall.

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