Survey Data
Reg No
50110487
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1825 - 1845
Coordinates
316378, 232791
Date Recorded
12/07/2017
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1835, as one of pair with No. 49, having three-storey return to rear (west) elevation. Now in use as offices. M-profile pitched roof, hipped to north, hidden behind granite parapet, having carved granite cornice and eaves course. Rendered brick chimneystacks with clay pots. Brown brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls to front and rear elevations, granite quoins, channelled granite to ground floor, cut granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement to front. Square- and round-headed window openings, having raised render reveals to upper floors, granite sills, continuous granite sill course to first floor. Cast-iron balconettes having Anthemion and scrolled detailing to first floor. Mixed three-over-three pane, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash and replacement windows. Wyatt windows to rear. Round-headed door opening with carved stone doorcase comprising Scamozzi Ionic columns and entablature, peacock's tail fanlight, panelled soffits and reveals and timber panelled door. Nosed granite steps having cast-iron boot-scrape to platform. Cast-iron railings having decorative collars, on cut granite plinth wall. Cast-iron coal hole cover set in footpath to front.
Appraisal
While forming part of a relatively uniform streetscape, this building is part of a pair displaying additional ornamentation consisting of a channelled granite basement. The Greek Revival doorcase, finely-crafted fanlight and cast-ironwork artistic interest to the classically restrained façade. The road leading from St. Stephen's Green to Donnybrook was originally called Suesey Street. It was renamed Leeson Street in 1728 to commemorate the Leeson brewing family, who were responsible for significant development in the area. Some early Georgian houses remain but construction predominantly dates from the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries.