Clonmell House — Harcourt Street

Terraced five-bay four-storey former mansion over basement, built 1778, with two-storey return across rear (west) elevation. Northernmost bays now internally linked to No. 16 (50920213). Now in use as offices and restaurant. Pitched roof hidden behind brick parapet with ashlar granite coping, having rendered chimneystacks to party walls, replacement to south, with some lipped yellow clay pots. Parapet gutters with cast-iron rainwater goods breaking through to south elevation. Hipped roofs to rear return. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond, refaced across upper floor, with granite plinth course over lined-and-ruled rendered walls to basement (north-end bays) and over roughly coursed and dressed stone walls to southern-end bays. Smooth rendered gables to north and south. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, masonry sills and raised rendered reveals. Largely one-over-one sliding timber sashes with horns, three-over-six and six-over-six to upper floors of northern-end bays. Central round-headed door opening with brick voussoirs, rendered reveals and Ionic doorcase comprising engaged Ionic columns and respond pilasters framing decorative sidelights, supporting fluted frieze and cornice with ornate petal fanlight over nine-panelled timber door. Granite entrance platform and granite steps flanked by iron railings over carved granite plinth, with decorative ends posts and ornamental wrought-iron lamp standards, continuing to north and south to enclose basement areas. Cast-iron coal hole cover to footpath to east. Street-fronted on the west side of Harcourt Street.