House

House in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1725–1735

Symmetrical terraced five-bay three-storey house over raised basement with attic, built c.1730, possibly to designs of Edward Lovett Pearce. Now in use as convent together with Nos. 8 & 10. M-profile slate roof with four dormer windows to front and rear pitches with hipped roofs. Roof hidden behind parapet wall with deep moulded dentillated parapet cornice and cast-iron hoppers and downpipes breaking through to either end. Brick chimneystacks to both party walls. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with plain frieze below parapet cornice, continuous masonry sill course to first floor and platband over rusticated rendered ground floor. Moulded granite plinth course over rendered basement walls. Five-bay three-storey over basement rear elevation with red brick walls laid in Flemish bond and chamfered granite plinth course over rendered basement. Gauged red brick camber-arch window openings with rendered reveals, masonry sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows with partly exposed sash boxes throughout, six-over-six pane to ground and second floors and nine-over-six pane to first floor. Central round-headed window opening to first floor with balustraded apron and flanked by Ionic pilasters supporting pulvinated frieze blocks with large impost mouldings and moulded archivolt with keystone. Square-headed door opening with pedimented painted stone doorcase. Replacement timb

Type:
House

Period:
1725–1735

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.35°N, 6.27°W

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