house — Howth Road

Semi-detached two-bay two-storey two-pile house over raised basement, built c. 1840, as one of pair, set back from road, with return to rear (northwest) elevation, and recent single-bay extension to southwest end of front. U-plan pitched slate roof, hipped to southwest, having rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to northeast party wall, hidden behind brown brick parapet with cut granite coping, and with flat roof to return. Brown brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, to front elevation, with granite plinth course above basement. Square-headed window openings with cut granite sills, raised render reveals and hornless six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front. Elliptical-headed doorway with rendered reveals, masonry doorcase comprising Doric columns supporting entablature with modillion cornice, petal fanlight, timber panelled door, and approached by flight of ten cut granite steps with half-landing and wrought-iron railings with decorative finials. Cast-iron bootscrape to granite platform. Garden to front, with rendered masonry wall and chamfered square-plan piers with granite capping and wrought-iron gate having cast-iron collars, to front boundary.