Catholic University School — Leeson Street Lower

Attached three-bay three-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1800, with bowed-bay to rear (north) elevation. Altered c. 1900. Now in used as school. U-plan hipped roof, hidden behind rendered parapet with moulded cornice, rendered chimneystacks to east and west party walls with clay pots. Parapet gutters with cast-iron hopper and downpipe to rear (north). Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond (areas of machine-made brick), with rendered dressings including rusticated corner quoins, moulded eaves course and granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to rear (north) elevation, over rendered plinth course. Tripartite square-headed window openings with granite sills, brick voussoirs, patent reveals, fluted pilasters to mullions and multi-paned overlights, having margin lights to lower floors, with central diamond motif to ground floor. Windows are one-over-one tripartite timber sliding sashes with ogee horns, six-over-six to third floor. Rear (north) windows are single openings with six-over-six sashes to third floor, twin-paned overlights and two-over-two timber sashes to first floor, round-headed overlights and margins to ground floor with twin-paned bipartite timber casements to west-bays and fixed timber casements to east-bays with margins, stained glass. Round-headed door opening with brick voussoirs, engaged Ionic columns and respond pilasters framing decorative sidelights, supporting festooned frieze and cornice having cobwebbed fanlight over raised-and-field timber panelled door. Iron crucifix and fixed lettering over doorcase; ‘CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY SCHOOL’. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot scrapers, nosed granite steps flanked by curved iron railings with decorative cast-iron corner posts on granite plinth, continuing east and west to enclose basement area. School incorporates Nos. 89-2 (50930307-10).