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house — Drumcondra Road Lower

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Attached two-bay two-storey house over basement, built c. 1740 as one of pair or as part of earlier house later subdivided. M-profile hipped roof, hidden behind rendered parapet with cut granite coping, and with rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to south party wall. Rendered walls, with painted quoins to north end. Square-headed window openings to ground and first floors and segmental-headed openings to basement, with granite sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway with moulded lugged surround, plain overlight, carved stone pediment on foliate brackets, and replacement timber door. Entrance approached by flight of three granite steps, platform having cast-iron coal-hole cover, and with cast-iron handrail to south side and rendered wall to north. Garden and carparking to front, bounded by decorative cast-iron railings and matching gate. Architectural features to interior, including angled corner chimneybreasts, flat panelled doors, lugged-and-kneed architraves to windows, and staircase with interlocking flights, suggestive of early date.

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