house — Hume Street

Attached five-bay four-storey former pair of townhouses over basement, built c. 1770, unified behind single facade 1925. Pitched roof with hipped and returns to east concealed behind parapet with moulded cornice, with raised parapet over central three-bays with raised lettering, 'DUBLIN.SKIN.AND.CANCER.HOISPITAL.’ Flanking rendered chimneystacks with lipped yellow clay pots. Rendered walling, rusticated to ground floor. Central three-bays defined by piers rising to fluted Doric heads, flanked by banded piers rising to frieze surmounted by projecting cornice over dentil band over second floor. Square-headed window openings with projecting sills and moulded architraves; openings to third floor with keystones, those to central three bays of third floor surmounted by moulded cornice. Openings to flanking bays of ground floor with rusticated rendered voussoirs and keystone. Timber one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Entrance doors located to outer bays of central three-bays, with moulded architraves on granite plinth stops; toplights over timber panelled doors opening onto polychromatic tiled porch. Porch enclosed by portico comprising paired Doric columns on granite plinth stops supporting modillioned cornice over triglyphed frieze with single step to street and cast-irons gates. Cast-iron railings enclose basement wells to east and west. Street fronted on southern side of Hume Street.