Survey Data
Reg No
50100624
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1815 - 1845
Coordinates
316958, 233282
Date Recorded
31/05/2016
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1830 as one in group of three (Nos. 35-37), rear having two-storey return to west end and fire escape to east end. Now in commercial office use. M-profile roof, having brick parapet with moulded projecting masonry coping with parapet gutters and platband. Shouldered brick chimneystacks to east with yellow clay pots. Flemish bond red brick walling to upper floors of front, rusticated ashlar granite to ground floor with projecting granite course above and below, over painted tooled ashlar stone walls to basement; brick to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, having painted masonry sills, rendered reveals and brick voussoirs, with raised painted stone architrave to basement. Timber sliding sash windows (some replacements), six-over-six pane to middle floors with horns and some historic glass, six-over-three pane to top floor and eighteen-over-eighteen pane to basement. Decorative cast-iron balcony spanning first floor windows, and steel grille to basement. Apparently timber sash windows to rear, with round-headed stairs window to west bay. Round-headed painted masonry doorcase with moulded surround, pro-style fluted Doric columns, entablature, triglyphs to frieze, peacock's tail fanlight and eleven-panel timber door with recent brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with five bull-nosed granite steps and decorative cast-iron boot-scrape. Decorative cast-iron railings on painted moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area. Cast-iron gate and mild steel steps lead down to basement. carparking to rear of plot.
Appraisal
A well retained late Georgian house that was built in conjunction with Nos. 35-36 to the east. This terrace of three forms the east end of a cohesive 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 full-width balcony, boot-scrape and railings. 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 grander 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.