house — Baggot Street Lower

Terraced two-bay four-storey former townhouse over basement, built c. 1810, with shallow bowed-bay to west rear (south) elevation. Now in use as offices. M-profile pitched roof with shouldered rendered chimneystacks, replacement to west, with lipped yellow clay pots, concealed behind brick parapet (rebuilt to rear), with granite coping, concealed gutters with uPVC downpipes breaking through to rear. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, ruled-and-lined rendered walling to basement with granite stringcourse over. Buff brick to rear, laid to English garden wall bond. Square-headed window openings, two round-headed openings to rear, with projecting granite sills and brick voussoirs; openings diminishing to the upper floors. Largely six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, ten-over-ten to basement, eight-over-eight to ground floor and three-over-three to third floor. uPVC windows to much of rear elevation. Cast-iron grilles affixed to basement and round-headed rear openings, decorative cast-iron balconettes fixed to sills of first floor window openings on principal elevation. Round-headed door opening to eastern bay of principal elevation with Neo-classical doorcase comprising engaged Ionic columns on plinth stops supporting fluted frieze with rosettes and moulded cornice, plain glass fanlight over eleven-panelled timber door with brass furniture. Paved granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot scraper and one step to street flanked by cast-iron railings on granite plinth, enclosing basement well to west. Replacement granite steps and mild-steel handrail to basement well with square-headed timber-panelled door located underneath entrance platform. Street fronted on south side of Baggot Street Lower, abutted by similar terraces to east and west. Recent two-storey mews building to south, fronting onto Hagan’s Court.