house — Drumcondra Road Lower

Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c. 1895, having canted single-storey bay to front (east) elevation and two-storey return to rear with enclosed yard. M-profile pitched slate roof with angled black ridge tiles, felted roof to canted-bay, red brick chimneystack to party wall with yellow clay pots and cogged brick caps; half-round metal gutter supported on cogged yellow and black brick eaves course. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, over chamfered granite plinth. Segmental-headed window openings with polychrome brick voussoirs, granite sills, continuous granite sill to canted-bay, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows except for bay window which has replacement uPVC frames. Round-headed doorway with polychrome brick voussoirs, carved timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters with scrolled brackets supporting timber cornice, timber bolection-moulded four-panel door with brass furniture, and plain fanlight. Granite threshold with cast-iron boot-scrape, accessed by red and black tiled garden path with terracotta edging. Set back behind paved garden, bounded to street by cast-iron railings with decorative finials on cut granite plinth with hedging behind and cast-iron pedestrian gate; hedging to south boundary and rendered masonry walling to north. Stands on tree-lined section of Drumcondra Road Lower.