house, 10, Merrion Square · NIAH 50100357

Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1765, having small two-storey over basement return to rear with three-bay two-storey over basement block to rear of latter. Now in use as offices. Pitched roof to front, behind brick parapet with granite coping, and two pitched roofs to rear perpendicular to street, west pitch being narrower and having skylights and gabled to rear and larger pitch being hipped to rear. Rendered and brick chimneystacks to party walls with clay pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods to west. Flemish bond red brick walls with granite stringcourse, rusticated granite walls to ground floor and rendered walls to basement, rear and returns. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with raised rendered reveals, painted granite sills; ground floor openings having recessed granite reveals and granite keystones and sills. Replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor upwards, and six-over-six pane to basement with recent steel grilles. Apparently timber sash windows to rear, with group of three to top floor of west bay. Ornate cast-iron balcony to full-width of first floor. Segmental-headed door opening having doorcase comprising engaged Doric columns, painted moulded masonry cornice, batwing fanlight and eleven-panel timber door with brass door furniture. Granite platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and three granite steps. Cast-iron railings on carved granite plinth enclosing basement area. Entrance hall and stairs hall have moulded dado rails and dentillated plasterwork cornice, with plasterwork rose to entrance hall ceiling, square-headed door openings with panelled doors, that to stairs hall having pilasters, deep moulded cornice and decorative archivolt, and that to front room having Ionic pilasters and pedimented over-door; stairs hall having timber open-string staircase with cast-iron balusters and mahogany handrail; ground floor rooms having deep timber skirtings, moulded chair rails, chimney breasts with marble chimneypieces, servant's bell to south wall and square-headed door openings with lugged-and-kneed timber architraves, dentillated plaster cornices and ceiling roses; return has coved ceiling and square-headed window stained-glass margins. Rendered wall to rear boundary.