Survey Data
Reg No
50070405
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1790 - 1810
Coordinates
315276, 235487
Date Recorded
23/11/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement former house, built c.1800, now in use as offices. Pitched M-profile roof, hipped to east end, having parapet to front (south) elevation with cut granite capping. Shared stepped rendered chimneystacks having clay chimneypots. Brown brick walls laid in Flemish bond having cut granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement level. Square-headed window openings having patent reveals and cut granite sills. Cast-iron balconettes to ground and first floor windows. Six-over-six pane timber sash windows, eight-over-eight timber sash window to basement. Round-arched door opening having engaged Ionic columns supporting plain frieze and cornice. Plain fanlight. Timber panelled door. Cut granite steps to entrance platform having metal railings with decorative cast-iron corner post. Basement areas enclosed from pavement level by cut granite plinth wall with metal railings. Access from pavement level to basement area by recent concrete stairs and metal gate. Two cast-iron coal-hole covers set in granite paving to front.
Appraisal
This terraced house makes an important contribution to the streetscape of Blessington Street. It retains early fabric including structural brickwork and a decorative door surround. It shares proportions and characteristics with its neighbours that are typical of Georgian Dublin houses. Blessington Street was laid out at the end of the eighteenth century, appearing in the alphabetical list of streets in Wilson's Dublin Directory for the first time in 1795. It terminates to the west at Blessington Street Basin, constructed in 1810 as a city reservoir supplied from the nearby canal, it is now a public park.