Survey Data
Reg No
50100671
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1795 - 1835
Coordinates
317060, 233165
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 terrace of seven (Nos. 16-22) in longer row of similar houses, and having three-storey flat-roofed return to south end of rear. Attic windows to higher east elevation of rear part. Now in use as apartments. M-profile roof, hipped to south end, having brick parapet with moulded granite coping and parapet gutters, ashlar platband, shouldered brick chimneystacks to north party wall with clay pots, and shared replacement uPVC downpipe and hopper. Flemish bond buff brick walling on painted masonry plinth over ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings with painted rendered reveals and granite sills; rendered surround to basement opening at front, set in segmental-headed recess. Timber sliding sash windows with some historic glass, ten-over-ten pane to basement and six-over-six pane above, hornless except for top floor with ogee horns. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor, wrought-iron window-guards to top floor, and wrought-iron grille to basement. Round-headed stairs window to south bay of rear. Round-headed doorway with moulded render surround and painted stone doorcase comprising fluted Doric columns, entablature with laurel wreaths to frieze, decorative fanlight and bolection-moulded four-panel timber door with brass furniture and beaded muntin. 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 round-headed cast-iron openwork piers, now lacking pedestrian gate. Yard to rear of plot, with modernized two-storey rubble stone mews building to lane.
Appraisal
No. 22 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. The survival of the original mews building to the rear, albeit modified, enhances the property. 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.