Survey Data
Reg No
50060302
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Drummond Institution
Original Use
Orphanage/children's home
In Use As
House
Date
1890 - 1910
Coordinates
310200, 234641
Date Recorded
27/08/2014
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey former orphanage building, built c.1900, as one of pair. Now in use as house. Natural slate roof, pitched to west, hipped to east with tall red brick chimneystack abutting west gable of adjoining house. Moulded cast-iron guttering supported on stepped red brick eaves course with replacement uPVC hopper and downpipe. Machine-made red brick walls laid in Dutch bond. Gauged brick flat-arch window openings with granite ashlar sills and replacement uPVC windows. Gauged brick flat-arch door opening with replacement panelled and glazed timber door and rectangular over-light. Door opens onto terracotta tiled platform and five tiled steps enclosed by painted cement rendered raking walls. Rear elevation has randomly placed square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows and flight of concrete steps to back door. Single-storey red brick structure to rear garden having shallow hipped corrugated-iron roof, cast-iron rainwater goods and square-headed window openings with granite sills, limestone ashlar lintels and early twentieth-century six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with some cylinder glass and ogee horns. Front gravel area and long front garden enclosed by rendered walls and elevated above street level with flight of concrete steps opening onto street via replacement timber door and enclosed by tall calp limestone rubble wall to street.
Appraisal
Built as one of a pair, this building forms part of a terrace of six of varying dates and styles, which together made up the Drummond Institution, a home for the orphan daughters of soldiers. Despite the loss of its original windows most of the façade materials remain intact. The single-storey structure to the rear adds further interest to the site. The relatively late construction date adds to the variety on this short terrace, while its elevated setting and front boundary walls add to the historic character of Chapelizod.