Survey Data
Reg No
50081078
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1820
Coordinates
314663, 232397
Date Recorded
11/12/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1810, having later extensions to rear (south) elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystack to rear elevation. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with masonry sills and replacement timber windows. Round-headed door opening having replacement timber door and fanlight. Garden to front enclosed by cast-iron railings on rendered brick plinth, with rendered piers having stone capping.
Appraisal
Addressing Dublin’s Grand Canal, this house forms part of a terrace which was built shortly after the construction of the canal in 1796. 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. The quality of materials, and composition and scale of the houses create a pleasing coherent design, making a positive architectural contribution to the street and to the setting of the Grand Canal.