house — Howth Road

Semi-detached two-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c. 1850 as one of pair, having shared return to rear (southeast) elevation. M-profile pitched artificial slate roof, hidden behind rendered parapet with moulded render cornice and eaves course, and having rendered chimneystacks to southwest end with clay pots. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond to front, with render quoins to southwest, on masonry plinth course over rendered basement walls; rendered to side and rear elevations. Square-headed window openings with moulded render architraves to ground and first floors, having moulded cornices to ground floor, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front and rear; replacement uPVC frames to return; round-headed stairs window to rear. Round-headed doorway with moulded render surround, carved timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters having scrolled brackets supporting timber frieze and plain fanlight, and timber panelled door. Entrance approached by shared flight of ten granite steps, with platform having decorative cast-iron bootscrape; wrought-iron handrails, that to shared side having decorative cast-iron elements. Garden and carparking to front, bounded to footpath by decorative cast-iron railings on rebuilt rubble limestone plinth wall with granite coping and matching gate.