Survey Data
Reg No
50130331
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Charleville Terrace
Original Use
House
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1875 - 1895
Coordinates
314508, 235701
Date Recorded
27/06/2018
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey former house over raised basement, built c. 1885 as one of terrace of ten, having full-height return to rear (north) elevation. Now in use as apartments. M-profile pitched slate roof, having terracotta ridge tiles, brick chimneystacks with clay pots to east and west ends and to return, profiled metal gutter supported on bracketed brick eaves course, over further yellow brick course, and replacement uPVC downpipe to east end. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, over granite plinth course and snecked limestone walls to basement to front elevation; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows, having red brick block-and-start surrounds to basement. Round-headed principal doorway with carved timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters with scrolled brackets supporting timber frieze and moulded timber cornice, leaded cobweb fanlight (possibly replacement), and original bolection-moulded timber four-panel door with round heads to upper panels, approached by flight of eight nosed granite steps, with granite platform shared with house to east, having wrought-iron handrails on granite plinths to each side. Square-headed doorway to basement with red brick block-and-start surround. Garden to front, bounded by cast-iron railings on cut granite plinth, with cast-iron pedestrian gate set to ornate piers.
Appraisal
This well-built house is part of a terrace of ten late nineteenth-century houses with similar parapet heights and fenestration patterns and the combination of snecked Calp limestone and red brick adds visual and textural interest to the facade. The corbelled brick detailing to the eaves places the house in a late nineteenth-century context. Skilled artisanship is evident in the handrails and railings. Its well-detailed entrance and steps provide a decorative focus. North Circular Road was laid out in the 1780s to create a convenient approach to the city, but developed slowly over the following century, with little development west of Phibsborough until the 1870s. The terrace was named 'Charleville Terrace' for Charleville House in Wicklow, home of Charles Monck, the landowner responsible for development along this stretch of the road.