Survey Data
Reg No
50100250
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Restaurant
Date
1810 - 1830
Coordinates
316330, 233418
Date Recorded
10/06/2016
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay four-storey former house, built c. 1820 as pair with No. 6 to west, having shopfront of c. 1900 to ground floor and with single-storey flat-roofed addition to rear; altered 1914 and 1922. Now in use as restaurant. M-profile roof, hipped to east of rear span, with shared pitched roof to west end, red brick parapet with masonry coping, brick chimneystacks to west party wall with replacement clay pots, and concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond red brick walling, rebuilt to top floor; unpainted smooth render to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings, diminishing to upper floors, with render reveals, painted masonry sills and replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with profiled horns; apparently one-over-one pane timber sash to rear. Early twentieth-century painted masonry shopfront having pilasters with foliate capital detail, fluted console brackets with nail-head stops and lead-lined cornice, replacement timber fascia, recent display windows over tiled plinth, recent shop door, and recessed opening to west end with replacement timber panelled door accessing upper floors.
Appraisal
One of a pair, this early nineteenth-century former house is one of the few remaining early buildings on this side of Merrion Row. It has good fenestration and much of its historic shopfront, contributing to the architectural heritage of this key cultural and administrative quarter of Dublin.