house — Saint Stephen's Green

Attached five-bay four-storey former townhouse over basement, built 1771, with recessed northern bay. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof with M-profiled hipped roof to rear (east) having chimneystacks to party walls; that to south rendered, that to north shouldered buff brick with lipped yellow clay pots. Roof concealed behind brick parapet with masonry coping. Concealed gutters with cast-iron hopper and downpipes breaking through to recessed northern bay. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond over rendered walling to basement with masonry stringcourse. Square-headed window openings with projecting masonry sill, patent reveals and brick voussoirs diminishing in height to upper floors. Six-over-six timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns, three-over-six to third floor. Window openings located beneath entrance platform with recessed surrounds and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed entrance door located to central bay with doorcase comprising Doric columns on plinth stops rising to open pediment with triglyphed frieze over cobwebbed fanlight with integrated lamp and twelve-panelled timber door with brass furniture opening onto granite entrance platform with flanking cast-iron bootscrapers and eight steps to street flanked by cast-iron railings on granite plinth with decorative corner posts enclosing basement areas to north and south. Plainly detailed square-headed entrance doors with tripartite toplights and recent timber doors located to north and south of entrance platform. Basement well accessed from street level by recent concrete steps with steel handrails. Street fronted onto eastern side of Saint Stephen's Green.