Survey Data
Reg No
50080894
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1870 - 1890
Coordinates
315119, 232948
Date Recorded
22/10/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Terrace of four two-bay single-storey over basement houses, built c.1880. Pitched artificial slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks and bull-nosed red brick eaves course. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond having black brick courses, over rendered basement. Square-headed window openings having red brick voussoirs with black brick to centre, cut granite sills, and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door openings with black brick to arch centre, plain overlights, timber panelled doors, and cut granite steps having cast-iron railings to shared raised entrance platforms. Cast-iron coal hole cover to platform of numbers 37 and 38. Front basement areas enclosed by cast-iron railings.
Appraisal
This terrace retains much of its early form and character. The raised entrance platforms add interest to the streetscape and give a sense of grandeur to these otherwise modest houses. 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.