Survey Data
Reg No
50100676
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1795 - 1835
Coordinates
317037, 233138
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) within longer row of similar houses, and having three-storey return to south end of rear. Attic windows to higher east elevation of rear part. Now in office use. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to south end of front span, having brick parapet with moulded granite coping and parapet gutters. Shouldered brick chimneystacks to north party wall with clay pots. Shared cast-iron downpipe. Flemish bond buff brick walling on painted masonry plinth course over ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings with patent reveals and painted granite sills; rendered surround to basement opening to front, set in segmental-headed recess. Replacement timber sliding sash windows, ten-over-ten pane to basement without horns, and one-over-one pane elsewhere with ogee horns. Cast-iron grille to basement. Timber sash windows to rear, three-over-three pane to top floor, three-over-six pane to second floor and six-over-six pane below, with round-headed window to south bay. Round-headed doorway with painted moulded render surround and stone doorcase comprising fluted Doric columns, entablature with laurel wreaths to frieze, plain fanlight and replacement four-panel timber door with brass furniture. Shared entrance platform with decorative cast-iron boot-scrape and two stages of five and six bull-nosed granite steps, flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth. Plain square-headed doorway beneath entrance platform. Single granite step to street, and decorative cast-iron railings on granite plinth with matching pedestrian gate with round-headed cast-iron openwork piers. Yard to rear of plot, with two-storey rubble stone mews building to lane.
Appraisal
No. 17 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.