Survey Data
Reg No
50110430
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Hostel (charitable)
Date
1770 - 1790
Coordinates
315746, 232733
Date Recorded
01/06/2017
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay three-storey former house, built c. 1780, now in use as hostel. Hipped roof behind rendered parapet with masonry coping, brick chimneystacks having clay pots. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render plinth course. Carved stone coat-of-arms over door. Square-headed window openings having raised rendered reveals and masonry sills. Replacement windows throughout. Square-headed door opening with raised rendered reveal. Plain overlight, with decorative cast-iron security bar. Carved cornice and timber panelled door. Cast-iron railings with spoked finials and decorative collars on concrete plinth wall to north, mild steel railings to front.
Appraisal
This building is one of only a small number of eighteenth-century houses that survive on Charlemont Street. Its classically proportioned façade is ornamented by an ornate carved stone plaque bearing the coat of arms and motto of the O'Brien family. Charlemont Street, the old road to Cullenswood, was developed in the late eighteenth century. It was named for James Caufield, 1st Earl Charlemont, who was among its early developers.