house, 54, Mountjoy Square West, Grenville Street · NIAH 50010955

Corner-sited end-of-terrace three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built, 1790, with full-height bow to north side elevation. Built as one of pair and forming external southwest corner of Mountjoy Square. Now in mixed use. Double-pile natural slate roof with pair of rear projections set perpendicular to front pitch, that to south shared with adjoining house, and shallow bowed roof over north bow. Large yellow brick chimneystack rising from north gable with further rendered chimneystack rising from rear gable. Roof behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping and cast-iron rainwater goods breaking through to rear. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with remnants of original lime pointing, recently lime pointed to north side elevation. Chamfered granite plinth course over ruled-and-lined rendered basement walls. Painted rendered walls to rear elevation. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with granite sills, flush rendered reveals and replacement timber sliding sash windows throughout, six-over-six pane to lower floors and three-over-three pane to top floor. Wrought-iron window guards to second floor and wrought-iron grilles to basement windows with some granite surrounds. Bow has replacement Wyatt timber sliding sash windows with gauged brick lintels of former openings to either side on ground and first floors. Gauged brick round-arched door opening with Portland limestone Ionic doorcase. Replacement timber door with decorative panels and brass furniture flanked by engaged Ionic columns on plinth blocks, Gothic-arched sidelights with replacement lead tracery and quarter engaged Ionic pilasters supporting stepped lintel cornice with festoon motifs and replacement leaded fanlight. Door opens onto granite platform with pair of original cast-iron bootscrapers and four nosed granite steps bridging basement. Platform and basement enclosed by original wrought-iron railings and cast-iron corner posts on moulded granite plinth wall. Railing returns to north side elevation with matching iron gate providing basement access via steep steps. Rendered wall and yellow brick screen wall abuts rear elevation with elliptical carriage arch opening into rear yard. Single-storey modern return with flat roof abuts rear elevation. Yard partially surfaced in red sandstone flagstones and original cobblestones.