Survey Data
Reg No
50070066
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1760 - 1765
Coordinates
314134, 235149
Date Recorded
02/01/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay three-storey house, one of a pair built 1761, having three-storey return to rear (east) elevation. Now in use as apartments. Hipped tiled roof, with rendered chimneystack on south party wall, moulded eaves course, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls, having render quoins to north corner. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds, rendered reveals, painted concrete sills, and replacement timber casement windows throughout. Round-headed door opening with moulded masonry surround and replacement timber panelled door and fanlight. Cast-iron railings on painted concrete plinth enclosing area to front.
Appraisal
Forming one of a pair of late eighteenth-century houses, no.15 Prussia Street was built in 1761. The parapet height of the pair is somewhat higher than neighbouring, later houses, and their tall elevations are a reminder of their early Georgian character. although like many buildings on the street the facade has undergone some alterations through the centuries, it retains much of its early form and character. Prussia Street, formerly known as Cabra Lane, is an ancient route way from Dublin city and a continuation of Manor Street. The west side of Cabra Lane was largely developed by the time of Rocque’s 1756 map of Dublin, and the east side developed from the 1760s, making this one of the earliest surviving houses on the street. The house is present on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1837.