Survey Data
Reg No
20823085
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1844 - 1849
Coordinates
210369, 77953
Date Recorded
21/03/2007
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey house, extant 1849, on a rectangular plan. One of a terrace of four. Replacement pitched fibre-cement slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack (east) having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, and uPVC rainwater goods on eaves board. Repointed rubble stone wall to front (south) elevation originally rendered with rendered frieze. Segmental-headed door opening (west) with threshold, and rendered doorcase with corbelled hood moulding framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window opening (west) with sill, and rendered surround with hood moulding framing replacement casement window. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with sills, and rendered surrounds framing replacement casement windows. Set in close.
Appraisal
A house forming part of a self-contained terrace of four houses (including 20823086 - 20823088) making a pleasing visual statement in Ashe Street. One house in the terrace survives intact and its finishes, including hub-and-spoke fanlight and hornless small-pane sash windows, have the potential to inform the restoration of the character of the ensemble. NOTE: Connolly Terrace, originally known as Nelson Terrace, was built by Edward Fitzgerald (1820-93) of Nelson Villa who was listed under the heading "Architects & Builders" in Isaac Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland (1846, 337). The terrace occupied a site leased (30th November 1843) from 'George Henry Haughton, Vincent Russell and Richard Power Ronayne, for 99 years, from 25th March, 1844, [on condition that the lessee] expend in permanent improvements £500 within seven years' (Encumbered Estates Auction Notice 15th October 1851). Fitzgerald ran into financial difficulties and The Southern Reporter and Cork Daily Commercial Courier (4th May 1863) carried an advertisement for an auction (20th May 1863) of the 'Four Recently-built Dwelling Houses, situate on Nelson Terrace, held in fee, and free from all Rent…Each House contain[ing] a Sitting-room, Three Bedrooms, Kitchen, Pantry and Scullery, together with a Back-yard and Small Offices, with back entrance, and [which] have been usually Let at £10 a Year each'.