Survey Data

Reg No

50020405


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social


Original Use

House


Historical Use

Shop/retail outlet


In Use As

Office


Date

1820 - 1830


Coordinates

316433, 234107


Date Recorded

11/03/2015


Date Updated

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Description

Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement former house, built 1825, having shopfront to front (north) elevation added c.1905, and single-storey extension, c.1950, to rear (south) elevation. Now in use as part of college. Flat roof concealed behind rebuilt red brick parapet with carved granite coping, red brick chimneystacks having clay pots. Red brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls, with yellow brick in English garden wall bond, to rear wall. Square-headed window openings having granite sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, Wyatt windows to rear. Faience shopfront comprising Doric columns with fluted capitals and moulded console brackets, pedimented to west end, flanking tiled and painted fascia and dentillated cornice. Numerals in relief and marigold detailing to fascia. Square-headed door opening with fixed pane timber framed overlight on dentillated cornice over half-glazed timber panelled door having Doric column detail, square-headed window opening blocked. Apparently retaining original layout to interior with some egg and dart detailing to plasterwork, timber shutters, staircase and joinery. Street fronted to south of Pearse street.

Appraisal

Numbers 183 to 187 were built as a single unit by John Manders, in partnership with Alderman Robert Smyth, in 1825, with an integral arch in number 182. The use of cheaper clamp kilned yellow brick to the rear, laid in English garden wall bond, which uses less bricks than Flemish bond, is a common feature of these ‘Manders format’ houses. Manders' influence can be seen in the design of other houses along the street. The well-executed shopfront is a handsome and eyecatching later addition, while the retention of historic interior joinery adds to its character. Number 187 was still in use as a house, occupied by a doctor named Thomas Byrne, in the mid-nineteenth century. Great Brunswick Street was laid out by the Wide Street Commissioners in 1812 after a long negotiation with Trinity College, whose grounds define the southern side of the street. Construction along the street continued for the next forty years. It was renamed in 1922 to commemorate William and Patrick Pearse, whose father had a business at number 27.