Survey Data
Reg No
50020369
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1820 - 1840
Coordinates
316684, 234063
Date Recorded
21/04/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay three-storey over basement former house, built c.1830, having shopfront to front (south) elevation. Now disused. M-profile shared pitched slate roof having clay ridge tiles, yellow brick chimneystack with clay pots, rendered parapet having granite coping. Lined-and-ruled rendered wall to front with rendered eaves course and masonry plinth course. Square-headed window openings with raised render reveals, granite sills, one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to upper floors, having some historic glazing to first floor. Square-headed display window and door openings with masonry sill to window, recent steel roller shutters and projecting shutter boxes over. Round-headed door opening to west having timber panelled door and masonry doorcase comprising panelled pilasters surmounted by fluted console brackets with guttae, supporting panelled entablature and plain fanlight. Granite kerb stones and granite paving having iron grille to front. Situated to north side and centre of Pearse Street.
Appraisal
This building retains a shared parapet height and similar detailing in the round-headed door opening with its neighbours, which creates a sense of continuity in the streetscape. Like many houses in the street, by the mid-nineteenth century it was in multiple occupancy, in this case by a pianoforte teacher and an instructor in English and Italian singing. Previously known as Great Brunswick Street, the street was renamed in 1922 to commemorate William and Patrick Pearse, who were executed for the part they played in the 1916 Rising, and whose family had a business on the street. There were delays in the establishment of the street's width until 1812, due to difficulties in negotiations between the Wide Streets Commissioners and Trinity College Dublin, whose land formed the street's southern boundary.