Survey Data
Reg No
50080433
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1910 - 1920
Coordinates
310162, 232499
Date Recorded
14/06/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Seven pairs of semi-detached four-bay single-storey houses, built c.1915, each having gabled entrance porch to front (south) elevation, and extensions to rear (north) elevation. Pitched slate and artificial slate roofs, with yellow brick chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched roofs and timber bargeboards to entrance porches. Rusticated granite walls over rendered plinth to front and rear elevations, yellow brick laid in English garden wall bond over granite to side gables. Segmental-headed and square-headed window openings to front elevation having granite sills and lintels, and replacement uPVC windows. Early timber casement windows to nos. 485 and 494. Round-headed door openings having small-pane overlight, granite lintel, replacement timber or uPVC door and granite step. Some replacement overlights. Houses set back from road, having coursed rubble limestone wall or replacement concrete walls to garden to south. Two pairs west of junction with Kylemore Road, five pairs to east of junction, all facing south.
Appraisal
These houses are similar in form to houses at Rafter’s Road in Drimnagh, Kildare Road in Crumlin, Riverside Cottages in Templeogue, and Saint Patrick's Cottages in Rathfarnham, the latter designed by Thomas Joseph Byrne and built as social housing by South Dublin Rural District Council. These pre-date the large-scale development of Inchicore and Ballyfermot in the 1940s, and their long low form and large back gardens indicates their genesis as a rural typology. The rusticated granite façades lend a patina of age and contribute to the character of the streetscape. Though all the doors have been replaced, some houses retain early fanlights, and nos. 485 and 494 retain early timber casement windows. The quality of materials, composition and scale create a pleasing uniformity of design, and the houses make a positive contribution to the historic character of the area.