Survey Data
Reg No
20864006
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Store/warehouse
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1860 - 1880
Coordinates
170410, 72396
Date Recorded
22/03/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey gable-fronted former bonded stores, built c.1870, with three-storey L-plan block to north. Converted for use as apartments, c.2005, with dormer attics added. Pitched artificial slate roofs with limestone copings and cut limestone kneelers to gables. Rubble stone walls with cut limestone quoins, continuous sill course and platband to south elevation. Round-headed window openings to south elevation with dressed limestone surrounds; central window is tripartite having keystone and limestone mullions. Segmental-arched window openings to ground floor with dressed limestone surrounds. Camber-headed window openings to other elevations with gauged red brick to heads, red brick-block-and-start reveals and stone sills. Replacement windows throughout. Segmental-headed carriage arch to south elevation with limestone surround and replacement timber doors. Site cut into slope at east side of Trafalgar Hill with rubble stone retaining wall. Rendered plinth wall running along Trafalgar Hill having replacement railings with intermittent limestone square-profile piers having ball finials. Cut limestone gate piers to south having rusticated stone surfaces and replacement gates.
Appraisal
This substantial former warehouse building is located in a prominent position at the bottom of Trafalgar Hill. Its location is likely to have been chosen for its proximity to Tivoli railway station which formerly stood across the road. Essentially an industrial building, the front elevation to the Lower Glanmire Road was given a more formal treatment with the use of cut limestone blocks and the neat coursing of the rubble stone walls. The use of a mixture of sandstone and limestone in the construction lends this building a distinctly regional character.