Survey Data
Reg No
50120172
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1730 - 1750
Coordinates
316214, 236578
Date Recorded
17/10/2017
Date Updated
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Description
Two-bay two-storey house over basement, built c. 1740 as one of semi-detached pair or as part of earlier house later subdivided. M-profile hipped roof, hidden behind rendered parapet with cut granite coping, and having rendered chimneystack with clay pots to north party wall. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls, with flush block-and-start quoins to south end, and rendered to south elevation. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed doorway with moulded lugged surround, plain overlight, carved stone pediment on foliate brackets, and replacement glazed timber door and overlight. Entrance approached by flight of three granite steps, and with rendered parapet walls with decorative cast-iron railing atop north side. Wrought-iron railing enclosing basement area to front. Garden and carparking to front, bounded by replacement rendered walls and piers. Architectural features to interior, including angled corner chimneybreasts, flat panelled doors, lugged-and-kneed architraves to windows, and staircase with interlocking flights, suggestive of early date.
Appraisal
The simple form of this building is enlivened by the addition of a well-executed classically influenced doorcase with lugged surround and pediment. Drumcondra Road Lower is part of one of the principal ancient routeways leading north from the city, the Great Drogheda Road and cartographic sources indicate that this house is one of the oldest in the district. The interior of its neighbour retains architectural features indicating an early to mid-eighteenth-century date and the building may have been part of a larger house.