almshouse — Drumcondra Road Lower

Attached three-bay two-storey former almshouse over raised basement, built 1815, presenting to distinctly different facades, current front facade facing west to street and having two-storey projecting central porch, and former frontage at rear (east) having full-height bowed end bays. Now in use as flats. M-profile pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, partly hidden by rendered parapet with render coping, and having rendered and red brick chimneystacks to gable ends with clay pots. Rendered walling to west elevation with render quoins; red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond to east and south elevations. Round-headed fixed timber window to first floor of porch and three-over-six pane sliding sash to middle bay of first floor of east elevation; square-headed window openings elsewhere to east and west elevations, with granite sills to east elevation and raised render reveals and sills to west; double one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to first floor behind porch; replacement uPVC frames elsewhere to east and west elevations. Square-headed doorway to west elevation, with detached fanlight having replacement uPVC frame, timber doorcase with recent glazed sidelights, and double-leaf half-glazed/half-timber panelled door, approached by four granite steps flanked by recent steel railing; round-headed doorway to east with moulded render surround, masonry doorcase comprising Ionic columns, fluted frieze and two-stage cobweb fanlight and replacement timber panelled door, approached by flight of granite steps flanked by wrought-iron railings on rendered plinth wall.