house — Drumcondra Road Lower

End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house over raised basement, built c. 1770 forming south end of row of three, with single-storey return to rear. Vacant at time of survey (August 2018). M-profile hipped slate roof with clay ridge and hip tiles, concealed by brick parapet with stone coping; two rendered masonry chimneystacks to south wall with yellow clay pots. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, over painted masonry plinth course and smooth-rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings with brick jack-arches, unpainted rendered reveals, granite sills and replacement uPVC windows, with simple wrought-iron window-guards to first floor. Round-headed doorway with brick voussoirs, patent reveals, stone doorcase with engaged Ionic columns with entasis and entablature, plain fanlight, and timber door having eight raised-and-fielded panels, accessed by flight of eight stone steps flanked by rendered masonry walls with stone copings, that to north forming boundary wall with adjacent property and topped by wrought-iron railings. Garden to front, enclosed by rendered plinth wall with wrought-iron railings having pointed finials; full-height wrought-iron pedestrian gate with flat iron overthrow hung from masonry pier to north shared with adjoining property. Enclosed garden to rear. Located on tree-lined section of Drumcondra Road Lower.