house — Saint Stephen's Green

Attached three-bay four-storey former townhouse over basement, built 1737, and altered in late-eighteenth century. Now in use as hotel. Flat roof with rendered chimneystack to east party wall and rear having yellow clay pots, concealed behind rebuilt red brick parapet (with recessed panels aligning with third floor window openings), having moulded cornice over cement-rendered platband, topped with granite coping. Concealed gutters with cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to east-end. Red brick walls laid to Flemish bond, cement pointed with platbands over ground, first and second floor levels; rendered basement with stone stringcourse. Square-headed window openings with projecting granite sills, brick voussoirs and patent reveals, diminishing in height to upper floors; camber-headed to basement without sills. One-over-one replacement timber sliding sash windows with horns, exposed sash boxes to second, third floors; rendered sash box and two-over-two sash to basement. Segmental-headed door opening to western bay with brick voussoirs, projecting pole-moulded linings, moulded cornice over panelled frieze supported by composite columns on plinth stops, with plain fanlight and eleven-panelled timber door with brass furniture. Granite entrance platform accessed via four granite steps to street. Timber-panelled door beneath platform plainly detailed with tripartite overlight; basement well enclosed by cast-iron railings over granite plinth, granite steps with mild-steel handrail to basement level.