Survey Data
Reg No
50020407
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
316447, 234102
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 two-storey extension, built c.1950, to rear (south) elevation. Now in use as part of college. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to east, concealed behind red brick parapet with carved granite coping, red brick chimneystack. Red brick, laid in Flemish bond, to wall, with yellow brick laid in English garden wall bond, to rear wall. Square-headed window openings with granite sills having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Faience shopfront comprising Doric pilasters with fluted capitals, moulded console bracket, tiled and painted fascia having numerals in relief and marigold detailing, and dentillated cornice. Square-headed door opening with fixed-pane timber framed overlight on dentillated cornice over part-glazed timber panelled door having Doric column detail, nosed granite steps. Apparently retaining original layout with timber joinery to interior. 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 later shopfront is a handsome and eyecatching later addition, while the retention of historic interior joinery adds to its character. Number 185 was still a house in the mid-nineteenth century, occupied by Mrs Ellen Murphy. 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.