Survey Data
Reg No
50070407
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
315299, 235478
Date Recorded
23/11/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Group of three terraced two-bay three-storey over basement former houses, built c.1800, how in use as flats. Hipped M-profile roofs having parapet to front (south) elevation with cut granite capping. Rendered shared chimneystacks. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond having cut granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement. Cast-iron wall-ties to no.35. Square-headed window openings having cut granite sills. Balconettes to first floor windows. Six-over-six pane timber sash windows, replacement timber sash windows to no.34. Round-arched door openings. Painted render surrounds, having engaged Ionic columns supporting fluted frieze and cornice to no.33 and no.34. Plain fanlight to no.33, cobweb fanlight to no.34 and no.35. Cut granite steps to entrance platform having metal railings with decorative corner post. Basement areas enclosed from pavement level by cut granite plinth wall with metal railings. Access from pavement level to basement area by recent stairs and metal gates. Cast-iron coal-hole covers set in granite paving to front.
Appraisal
This group of houses makes an important contribution to the streetscape of Blessington Street. It retains early fabric including brickwork, sash windows and door surrounds. It shares proportions and characteristics typical of Georgian architecture in Dublin with neighbours resulting in a coherent streetscape. Blessington Street was laid out at the end of the eighteenth century, appearing in the alphabetical list of streets in Wilson's Dublin Directory for the first time in 1795. It terminates to the west at Blessington Street Basin, constructed in 1810 as a city reservoir supplied from the nearby canal, it is now a public park.