Survey Data
Reg No
50100618
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1800 - 1860
Coordinates
316918, 233302
Date Recorded
28/05/2016
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1830 as one of pair with No. 44, having two-storey return to west end of rear. Now in office use. Pitched slate roof to front span, behind brick parapet (rebuilt to rear) with granite coping and parapet gutters, cornice and platband to front elevation, hipped roof to east end of rear and shared hipped roof to west end of rear. Brick chimneystacks with terracotta pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flemish bond red brick walling to upper floors, rebuilt above mid-point of top two floors, rusticated granite walling to ground floor with projecting granite course above and below, over painted rendered basement walling; brown brick walling to rear on painted masonry plinth over painted rendered basement walling; and brown brick to return. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals and painted masonry sills; round-headed stairs opening to rear elevation. Timber sliding sash windows with angled horns, one-over-one pane to ground floor, three-over-three pane to top floor, ten-over-ten pane to basement with reeded glass, and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Wrought-iron window-guards to second floor and wrought-iron grille to basement, with decorative cast-iron balconette to first floor at rear. Apparently timber sash windows to rear, with eight-over-eight pane to middle floors of east bay. Round-headed doorcase with moulded surround, pro-style fluted Doric columns, plain entablature, peacock's tail fanlight and eleven-panel timber door with brass furniture. Stone-paved entrance platform with decorative cast-iron boot-scrape and five bull-nosed steps to street. Decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area with cast-iron gate. carparking and recent flat-roofed building to rear of plot.
Appraisal
A well retained late Georgian house forming part of a largely unified row lining the south side of Mount Street Upper. It has the rusticated stone ground floor of houses on this stretch of the street, a fine Doric doorcase with a good fanlight, and ornate metalwork to its boot-scrape and railings, and rear balconette. The intact setting enhances the building and contributes to the intactness of the streetscape. Laid out in the 1780s and principally developed by a Mr Osburne and David Courtney, the street was built to link the newly constructed Grand Canal to the upper-class residential developments radiating from Leinster House. Built in pairs and rows over a period of thirty years, the fifty-four houses on the street were completed by 1834. Variations within the street, such as differences in parapet heights, are a telling feature of its piecemeal development, the south side notably grandeur than the north, boasting granite rustication across much of the ground floor. Mount Street Upper is terminated at its east end by St. Stephen's Church, transforming what is a typical and relatively modest late Georgian street into an urban set-piece, a key vista of Georgian Dublin.