Survey Data
Reg No
50100673
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1795 - 1835
Coordinates
317051, 233155
Date Recorded
21/06/2016
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay three-storey former house over raised basement, built c. 1815 as one of terrace of seven (Nos. 16-22) within longer row of similar houses, and having four-storey flat-roofed return to south end of rear. Attic windows to higher east elevation of rear part. Now in office use. M-profile pitched slate roof, behind brick parapet with moulded granite coping, with ashlar platband. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to party walls with clay pots. Concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond buff brick walling on masonry plinth course over wetdash rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings with painted rendered reveals and granite sills; rendered surround to basement opening to front, set in segmental-headed recess; rendered walling to rear. Replacement timber sliding sash windows with profiled horns, six-over-six pane to top floor and one-over-one pane elsewhere. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first and top floors, and steel grille to basement. Rear has replacement windows to top floor, timber sash below, three-over-six pane to second floor, and six-over-six pane below, with round-headed window to south bay. Round-headed doorway with painted moulded render surround and stone doorcase comprising fluted Doric columns, entablature with laurel wreaths to frieze, plain fanlight and replacement four-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with two stages of six and five bull-nosed granite steps, flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth. Plain square-headed door and window openings beneath entrance platform. Decorative cast-iron railings on painted moulded plinth to street, with matching pedestrian gate to round-headed cast-iron openwork piers. Yard to rear of plot, with modernized two-storey mews building to lane.
Appraisal
No. 20 Herbert Place forms part of a cohesive late Georgian terrace of twenty-five houses (Nos. 4-24), set back from the Grand Canal above exposed basements. The historic form and architectural character of the terrace are largely well retained, with notable Greek Revival doorcases, decorative fanlights and good ironwork setting features. Forming part of a unified group lining the west bank of the Grand Canal, this terrace enhances this historic streetscape and contributes to the wider Georgian core of south Dublin. The survival of the original mews building to the rear, albeit modified, enhances the property. Originally built as a southward continuation of Warrington Place, the street was renamed following the accession of Sidney Herbert to his father's estates in 1827.