Survey Data
Reg No
50110294
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1835 - 1845
Coordinates
315445, 233059
Date Recorded
10/05/2017
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay single-storey house over raised basement, built c. 1840. M-profile pitched slate roof, rendered chimneystack with some clay pots, rendered parapet and cornice. Yellow brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls, having cut granite plinth course over rendered wall to basement. Square-headed window openings with granite sills, raised render reveals and replacement windows. Timber panelled shutters visible to interior. Elliptical-headed door opening having rendered reveal, timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters and console brackets supporting cornice. Panelled timber door and teardrop fanlight. Shared granite steps with cast-iron coal-hole cover to platform. Basement area bounded by rendered plinth wall having granite coping, surmounted by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron collars. Curved alignment to main entrance steps. Recent pedestrian gate. Square-headed door to basement, beneath entrance steps. Set back from road, with basement-level front garden.
Appraisal
This house retains its traditional facade composition and features, including its door and ironmongery, which are characteristic of its early/mid-nineteenth-century date and add visual interest to the facade. The shared scale and features of these genteel townhouses contribute to the unified residential neighbourhood character of the locality. The streetscape is further enhanced by the retention of elegant iron railings. Pleasants Street along with its neighbouring roads forms part of early Victorian neighbourhood located to the west of Camden Street. The street is named after the philanthropist Thomas Pleasants (1729-1818) who donated money towards the establishment of the nearby Meath Hospital. This house (along with its neighbours Nos. 1-9) were the first constructed on the street in the late 1830s. The terrace was historically called Bell Villa, as inscribed on the plaque on the facade of No. 1, with a carved hand pointing in an easterly direction towards the rest of the group.