house — Hatch Street Lower

Corner-sited terraced two-bay four-storey former townhouse over basement, dated 1810, with two-bay frontage to Leeson Street Lower. Now in use as apartments. Pitched roof, hipped to south, with M-profiled return to west. Shouldered red brick chimneystack with red clay pots to north party wall. Buff brick walling laid in Flemish bond with granite quoins to corner. Oval-shaped granite plaque to east corner of principal elevation 'Hatch Street/1810.' Rendered basement walls with granite stringcourse. Square-headed window openings with projecting masonry sill, patent reveals and brick voussoirs, diminishing to upper floors. Timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns, three-over-three pane to third floor, six-over-six pane to second floor, one-over-one pane to first and ground floors and two-over-two to basement. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor with cast-iron window boxes affixed to sills of ground floor openings to eastern elevation. Round-headed door opening located to western bay of principal (south) elevation with masonry doorcase comprising Doric columns on plinth stops rising to panelled frieze with fanlight. Eleven-panel timber door with brass furniture opening on to granite entrance platform with bootscrape and three steps to street, flanked by cast-iron railings enclosing basement well to east, wrapping around to east elevation. Square-headed door opening located beneath entrance platform with six-panel timber door, basement area accessed by granite steps with recent steel handrail. Street fronted on north side of Hatch Street and west side of Leeson Street Lower.