house — Drumcondra Road Lower

Corner-sited end-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house, built c. 1895, having canted single-storey bay to front (east) elevation and single-storey return to rear with enclosed yard. Now in use as apartments. U-plan pitched slate roof with angled black ridge tiles, two red brick chimneystacks to south elevation with yellow clay pots, and half-round cast-iron rainwater goods supported on cogged yellow and black brick eaves course. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, over granite plinth course. Segmental-headed window openings with polychrome brick voussoirs, granite sills (continuous to canted-bay) and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed doorway with polychrome brick voussoirs, timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters with replacement drop brackets, timber cornice, plain fanlight, and timber bolection-moulded four-panel door with beaded muntin and brass furniture. One nosed granite step accessed by concrete path with rope-moulded concrete edging set back behind gravelled front garden, latter bounded by wrought-iron railings with cast-iron finials on cut granite plinth, with cast-iron pedestrian gate. Located on tree-lined section of Drumcondra Road.