Survey Data
Reg No
50100648
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
316993, 233209
Date Recorded
01/07/2016
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1840 as one of pair (Nos. 5-6) within row of similar houses, and having two-storey return and lower addition to north end of rear. Now in use as offices. M-profile roof behind blind brick parapet with masonry coping, parapet gutters, and rendered shouldered chimneystacks with terracotta pots. Flemish bond dark red brick walling on granite plinth course over painted rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, having patent reveals, painted masonry sills and brick voussoirs. Timber sliding sash windows with profiled horns and secondary uPVC glazing, one-over-one pane to ground floor, six-over-one pane to first floor with historic glass to upper section, six-over-six pane to second floor, three-over-three pane to top floor and fifteen-over-ten pane to basement. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor with scrolled, scalloped cast-iron trimmings to window heads and wrought-iron window-guards to second floor. Timber sash windows to rear, three-over-three pane to top floor, north bay having round-headed six-over-six pane window and south bay having eight-over-eight pane window to second floor and tripartite six-over-six pane below. Round-headed doorway with render surround and painted masonry doorcase comprising pro-style Ionic columns, plain entablature, plain fanlight and eleven-panel timber door with replacement brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and five convex bull-nosed granite steps. Basement area enclosed by decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth. Plain square-headed door and window openings beneath entrance platform. Cast-iron gate and concrete steps lead down to basement. Yard to rear, with modernized two-storey mews building to rear of plot with single-pitched addition to lane side.
Appraisal
A mid-nineteenth-century row house built in the Georgian style, displaying well-balanced proportions and the graded fenestration pattern typical of the period. The house, along with the wider row, is attractive and relatively well retained with original features, including a good Ionic doorcase with a pleasant fanlight, and unusual convex entrance steps. The decorative balconettes and Victorian embellishments to the first floor windows add further visual interest and craftsmanship to the facade. Linking Mount Street Crescent to Lower Baggot Street, Herbert Street was laid out from the early 1830s by Sydney Herbert. No. 5 forms part of the fine row of houses lining the east side of this street and contributes to the streetscape character and to the wider historic core of south Dublin city.