Survey Data
Reg No
50070423
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
315397, 235524
Date Recorded
27/10/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Pair of terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former houses, built c.1800, attached at both gables to adjoining buildings in terrace. Now in use as flats. Pitched M-profile roof having continuous parapet to front (west) elevation with lead flashing. Rendered stepped chimneystacks. Brown brick walls laid in Flemish bond to front having cut granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement level. Rendered rear elevation. Square-headed window openings having patent reveals and granite sills. Balconettes to three of four first floor windows. Replacement uPVC windows. One round-arched window opening to rear at first floor level. Round-arched door openings having painted masonry surround with engaged Ionic columns supporting plain frieze and cornice. Timber panelled doors. Ornate petal design to fanlight of no.10, recent fanlight to no.9. Single step to entrance platforms having cast-iron bootscrape to north side of no.10. Basement area enclosed by cut granite plinth wall with cast-iron railings with decorative corner posts. Cast-iron coal-hole covers set in granite paving to front.
Appraisal
This pair of houses makes an important contribution to the streetscape. As the tallest properties on the street it marks the centre of the terrace. Despite the additional storey many other proportions and details are shared with neighbouring properties on Nelson Street leading to a coherent streetscape. Early fabric is retained including cast-iron bootscrape and railings, while the surviving fanlight to no.10 is particularly fine and typical of Dublin Georgian houses. Nelson Street was laid out in the late nineteenth century by the Gardiner Estate. It connects two arterial routes leading to Gardiner's ambitious yet unrealised Royal Circus, planned for the north-west end of Eccles Street and Berkeley Road.