Survey Data
Reg No
50010638
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical
Original Use
House
Date
1755 - 1760
Coordinates
315599, 234996
Date Recorded
01/11/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built by 1760, as one of pair with No. 40. Currently vacant. Double-pile slate roof, pitched to front pile with two hipped sections to rear, hidden behind parapet wall with moulded granite parapet cornice and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to south end. Further cast-iron rainwater goods breaking through façade at each level. Rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to south party wall, that to front being partly slate-hung. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with painted moulded granite plinth course over rendered basement walls. Red brick laid in Flemish bond to rear elevation. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and early replacement timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground and first floors, one-over-one pane to second floor and three-over-three pane to top floor. Replacement iron balconettes to first floor. Square-headed door opening set into tripartite painted stone Ionic doorcase, having replacement timber door with moulded architrave surround flanked by engaged Ionic columns, plain glazed sidelights and latter flanked by Ionic pilasters, columns and pilasters resting on rusticated raised plinth bases and supporting pulvinated and dentillated entablature and entablature blocks supporting open-bed dentillated pediment housing Y-tracery timber fanlight with moulded architrave surround and resting on lintel cornice. Door opens onto replacement terracotta tiled platform and cement screed over granite platform, flush to front pavement and bridging basement. Platform and basement enclosed by wrought-iron railings and corner piers set on raised moulded granite plinth wall. Iron gate opens off platform giving basement access via concrete steps with iron rails. Three-bay two-storey polychromatic brick industrial building to rear, built c.1880, fronting onto Granby Place.
Appraisal
This house stands in a row whose plots were laid out by Luke Gardiner in 1753 and was built by William Wilde as one of a pair of townhouses along with 40 Parnell Square West (see 50010639). The house has the typical form, fenestration and detailing of Georgian townhouse architecture. The fine tripartite classical doorcase is the main decorative focus, and the use of timber sash windows enhances the character of the façade. Its foreground appropriately includes a stone plinth wall and iron railings protecting the basement area. All in all this house contributes significantly to the architectural and townscape qualities of this fine Georgian square. The garden behind 41 Parnell Square West was developed as a hall (1910-2) for the Irish National Foresters' Benefit Society and was used for drilling and military exercises by the Irish Republican Brotherhood.