Survey Data
Reg No
50081073
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1790 - 1830
Coordinates
314784, 232379
Date Recorded
02/12/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced double-pile three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1810, with full-width addition to rear (south) elevation having catslide roof. M-profile pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, clay pots, and parapet to front (north) elevation having granite coping. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond, having string course over lined-and-ruled rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sash windows and cut granite sills. Round-headed door opening with half-glazed timber door, carved timber doorcase and plain fanlight, approached by cut granite steps with wrought-iron railings. Garden to front having red brick boundary walls and piers with granite capping having recent pedestrian and vehicular gates. Setts to garden path.
Appraisal
Addressing Dublin’s Grand Canal, this house forms part of a terrace which was built shortly after the completion of the circular line of the canal in 1797. The terrace was built on lands belonging to the Earl of Meath, beside the river Poddle and the Greenmount Spinning Manufactory which was built in 1808. This land had been the site of a corn mill since the mid-eighteenth century. The houses along the terrace exhibit a well-designed and well-executed early suburban architecture. Much early fabric is retained, adding to its historic character. The quality of materials, and composition and scale of the house create a pleasing coherent design with its neighbours, and makes a positive architectural contribution to the street and to the setting of the Grand Canal.