Survey Data
Reg No
50080992
Previous Name
Rosanna Place
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
315132, 232439
Date Recorded
05/01/2014
Date Updated
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Description
Terrace of three two-bay two-storey houses, built c.1820, with returns to rear (north) elevation. Hipped artificial slate roofs hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping, having brick chimneystacks. Red brick to walls laid in Flemish bond with rendered plinth course. Rendered walls to upper floor to Nos.9 and 10. Square-headed window openings with rendered reveals, granite sills, and replacement timber and uPVC windows. Elliptical-headed door openings with rendered surrounds, timber panelled doors, sidelights, timber cornices and plain fanlights.
Appraisal
Construction of the Grand Canal was completed in 1797, providing a waterway connection between Dublin and the River Shannon. New streets, including Windsor Terrace, were laid out along the canal and in the surrounding area, and residential development began in the early nineteenth century. The houses along Windsor Terrace were built speculatively giving rise to small groupings of similar, though not identical, terraced houses. Individually named terraces, including Rosanna Place and Bloomfield Place are recorded on the Ordnance Survey maps. The architectural form is derived from the Dublin townhouse though on a more modest scale due to its location on the edge of the city.