house

End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c.1820, with integral carriage arch and return to rear. Set back from road. Pitched tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render to walls. Timber sash windows with painted sills. Segmental-arched door opening with coved rendered surround and spoked fanlight with timber panelled door flanked by engaged Doric columns and sidelights with cornice above. Door entrance accessed by cut limestone steps with wrought-iron railings and seats. Bootscraper to bottom step. Timber battened double doors to carriage arch. Set behind wrought- and cast-iron railings on cut limestone plinth wall with cast-iron gates set to ashlar limestone piers.

This well proportioned house is retains many original features and fabric and belongs to a group of fine early nineteenth-century townhouses in Birr. The ornate doorcase expresses a classical influence sharing characteristics with those of its neighbouring buildings.