house — Clontarf Road

End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey former house over raised basement, built c. 1845 as one of five, having attic accommodation, with recessed entrance bay and later single-bay addition to east end, and with return to rear (north) elevation. Now in use as residential care home. Pitched artificial slate roof, hidden behind rendered parapet having moulded render cornice and eaves course, flat-roofed dormer window to front and flat roof to addition, and rendered chimneystack to west end with clay pots. Lined-and-ruled rendered walling with render quoins to front, having moulded render platband at first floor sill level, on moulded render plinth course over rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings with moulded render architraves to ground and first floors, masonry sills to basement and ground floor and continuous moulded render sill course to first floor, concrete sills to addition, and having replacement uPVC frames. Square-headed doorway, with carved timber doorcase, timber cornice, overlights and sidelights, and timber panelled door, set within flat-roofed porch whose outer side has scrolled brackets, rendered parapet with moulded cornice and eaves course, and glazed door with glazed sidelights and overlight. Entrance approached by flight of eleven nosed granite steps with decorative cast-iron railings having ornate end panels to each side. Elliptical-headed carriage-arch to east, having moulded render pilasters in curtain wall. Garden and carparking to front, bounded to footpath by panelled rendered wall with granite coping, having panelled rendered piers to pedestrian and vehicular entrances, with ornate cast-iron gate to former.