house — Drumcondra Road Lower

Mid-terrace two-bay three-storey house over raised basement, built c. 1770 as middle of terrace of three, having single-storey return to rear. Now in use as apartments. M-profile hipped slate roof with clay ridge and hip tiles, concealed by brick parapet with stone coping; two rendered masonry chimneystacks to party wall with yellow clay pots. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, over granite plinth course and smooth-rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings with brick jack-arches, patent reveals, granite sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, decorative wrought-iron balconettes to first floor, and wrought-iron window-guards to second floor. Round-headed doorway with brick voussoirs, patent reveals, stone doorcase having engaged Ionic columns with entasis and entablature, original cast-iron petal fanlight, and timber door with eight raised-and-fielded panels, accessed by flight of eight stone steps flanked by rendered masonry walls with stone copings, that to south forming boundary wall with adjacent property and topped by wrought-iron railings. Garden to front, enclosed by rendered plinth wall topped by wrought-iron railings with pointed finials; full-height wrought-iron pedestrian gate with flat iron overthrow hung from masonry pier to south and shared with adjoining property. Enclosed garden to rear. Located on tree-lined section of Drumcondra Road Lower.