House

House in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1740–1870

Attached three-bay three-storey former house over basement with attic storey, built 1745, modified externally c. 1860. Double mansard natural slate roofs aligned perpendicular to street, with perpendicular M-profile pitched returns to rear and closet return to south. Flemish bond brown brick parapet with masonry copings (concealed by vegetation). Brown brick chimneystack to north end with clay pots, and rendered gable chimneystack to return. Concealed gutters and replacement uPVC downpipes. Flemish bond brown brick walls with splayed granite plinth, partially painted rendered walls to basement and painted rendering to rear elevation. Round-headed dormer windows with flat roofs on console brackets, having timber casement frames; square-headed window openings elsewhere, diminishing in height to upper floors, having decorative lugged rendered architraves, plain rendered reveals to basement and painted granite sills. Timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane to basement and top floor and one-over-one pane elsewhere, having cast-iron window-guards to second floor. Painted pedimented Gibbsian doorcase with stepped keystone, block-and-start architrave, flat console brackets, guttae, triangular pediment, egg and dart moulding and monogram, and six-panel timber door with brass door furniture. Concrete platform bridging basement with four concrete steps, and decorative cast-iron rai

Type:
House

Period:
1740–1870

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.34°N, 6.26°W

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