Survey Data
Reg No
50100659
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
316954, 233143
Date Recorded
31/05/2016
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1840 as one of pair (Nos. 16-17) within longer row of similar houses, having two and three-storey return to south end of rear, with further large flat-roofed single-storey addition. Now in commercial office use. M-profile roof, hipped to south end of rear, having brick parapet with masonry coping and parapet gutters. Shouldered brick chimneystack to north. Shared cast-iron hopper and downpipe to south end, and replacement uPVC to north end. Flemish bond red brick walling on granite plinth course over painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with painted masonry sills, patent reveals and brick voussoirs. Timber sliding sash windows having profiled horns, twelve-over-twelve pane and recent timber casement to basement, and one-over-one pane elsewhere. Decorative canted cast-iron balconettes to first floor and wrought-iron window-guards to second floor. Timber sash windows to rear, three-over-three pane to top floor, south bay having round-headed window and north bay having eight-over-eight pane window to second floor and tripartite windows below. Round-headed doorway with painted moulded surround and masonry doorcase comprising pro-style Ionic columns supporting plain entablature, leaded peacock's tail fanlight and six-panel timber door with beaded muntin and brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and four bull-nosed granite steps. Decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth enclosing basement area. Cast-iron gate and concrete steps lead down to basement. Modernized two-storey mews building to rear of plot, extended 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 terrace and row, is attractive and relatively well-retained with original features, including a good Ionic doorcase and fanlight. The decorative balconettes further enhance the facade. The intact setting, with decorative railings and boot-scrape, contributes to the character of the streetscape and also to the wider historic core of south Dublin city. Linking Mount Street Crescent to Lower Baggot Street, this street was laid out by Sydney Herbert from the early 1830s.