Survey Data
Reg No
50080890
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1870 - 1880
Coordinates
315081, 232950
Date Recorded
22/10/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Terrace of three three-bay single-storey over basement houses, built c.1875. Pitched slate and artificial slate roofs, hipped to east end, with red brick chimneystacks having black brick detailing, and black brick sawtooth eaves course. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond having cut limestone platband over rendered basement walls. Square-headed window openings having black brick voussoirs to ground floor windows, cut granite sills, two-over-two timber sash windows to numbers 28 and 29, replacement uPVC to number 30. Square-headed door openings having black brick voussoirs, plain overlights, timber panelled and replacement doors. Cut granite steps with wrought-iron railings to raised entrance platforms. Front gardens enclosed by painted metal railings on cut granite plinths.
Appraisal
This short terrace retains much of its early form, fabric, and character. The raised entrance platforms add interest to the streetscape and give a sense of grandeur to these otherwise modest house. The construction of new residential streets in this area coincided with the immigration of Jewish communities fleeing pogroms in Europe in the late nineteenth century, and the area became known as Little Jerusalem. Thom's Directory of 1900 notes many Jewish surnames among the householders of Saint Kevin's Parade, and the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 notes a 'hebrah' or minor synagogue on the street. James Joyce's Ulysses refers to fictionalised characters living in this street, including Moses Herzog the one-eyed pedlar.