Survey Data

Reg No

50100670


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Artistic


Original Use

House


In Use As

Office


Date

1795 - 1835


Coordinates

317065, 233170


Date Recorded

21/06/2016


Date Updated

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Description

Attached two-bay three-storey former house over raised basement, built c. 1815 as one of pair (Nos. 23-24) within longer row of similar houses, and having two-storey flat-roofed return to north end of rear with single-storey addition. Now in office use. M-profile roof artificial slate roof, hipped to north end, having brick parapet with moulded granite coping, ashlar platband, shouldered brick chimneystacks to south party wall with clay pots, and concealed rainwater goods. Re-faced Flemish bond red brick walling on painted masonry plinth over painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings, with painted rendered reveals and painted granite sills; rendered surround to basement opening to front, set in segmental-headed recess. Timber sliding sash windows, one-over-one pane to middle floors and six-over-six pane to top floor, with ogee horns, ten-over-ten pane to basement without horns. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor, wrought-iron window-guards to top floor, and steel grille to interior of basement. Elliptical-headed doorway with moulded rendered surround and painted stone doorcase comprising fluted Doric columns, entablature with laurel wreaths to frieze, decorative fanlight and replacement four-panel timber door with brass furniture. Shared granite entrance platform with decorative cast-iron boot-scrape and two stages of six and six bull-nosed granite steps flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth. Decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth to street, with matching pedestrian gate to round-headed cast-iron openwork piers. Additions to rear of plot, and modernized two-storey rubble stone mews building to lane.

Appraisal

No. 23 Herbert Place forms part of a cohesive late Georgian terrace of twenty-five houses (Nos. 4-24), set back from the Grand Canal above exposed basements. The historic form and architectural character of the terrace are largely well retained, with notable Greek Revival doorcases, decorative fanlights and good ironwork setting features. Forming part of a unified group lining the west bank of the Grand Canal, this terrace enhances this historic streetscape and contributes to the wider Georgian core of south Dublin. Originally built as a southward continuation of Warrington Place, the street was renamed following the accession of Sidney Herbert to his father's estates in 1827.