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house — Drumcondra Road Lower

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Mid-terrace two-bay three-storey former house, built c. 1900, having canted flat-roofed single-storey bay to south end of front (east) elevation with masonry parapet and decorative cast-iron cresting, and having two-storey return to rear with enclosed yard. Now in use as apartments. M-profile pitched slate roof with angled black ridge tiles, two red brick chimneystacks to south end with yellow clay pots, and ogee-profile cast-iron rainwater goods supported on cogged yellow and black brick eaves course. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, over painted rendered plinth. Segmental-headed window openings with plain reveals, polychrome brick voussoirs, granite sills (continuous to bay window) and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed doorway with polychrome brick voussoirs, bull-nosed gauged brick reveals, narrow timber jambs having foliate brackets, timber cornice and plain fanlight and timber six-panel door, approached by four nosed granite steps with cast-iron boot-scrape, having encaustic tiled garden path with decorative terracotta edging. Set back behind paviored front garden, bounded by wrought-iron railings with decorative finials on cut granite plinth, and cast-iron pedestrian gate. Located on tree-lined section at west side of Drumcondra Road, at junction with St. Alphonsus Road.

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