Survey Data
Reg No
50120099
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1790 - 1795
Coordinates
317952, 236428
Date Recorded
26/10/2017
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-pile three-storey former house over raised basement, built 1792 as one of twenty-five, having three-bay ground floor and two-bay upper floor, and with single-storey addition to east side of rear. Now in use as apartments. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to east end, having rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to west end, hidden behind rendered parapet having moulded render cornice, and eaves course, with replacement uPVC rainwater goods, and having lean-to roof to addition. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with cut granite plinth course over basement walling. Square-headed window openings with masonry sills, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to ground and first floors to front and to round-headed stairs window to rear, and replacement timber elsewhere. Round-headed doorway with moulded timber cornice on replacement timber pilasters, plain fanlight with moulded render surround having corbel stops, and replacement timber door, approached by flight of four granite steps with cast-iron bootscrape to platform, and recent metal handrail. Garden to front, bounded to footpath by decorative cast-iron single-leaf gate with matching railings on carved limestone plinth wall.
Appraisal
This house is part of a significant architectural set-piece, Marino Crescent, one of the few Georgian crescents in the city. Despite being later replacements the timber sash windows add to the overall heritage value of this building. The crescent comprises houses with similar parapet heights and fenestration patterns, with larger houses to the centre and west end. The terrace was built in the last decade of the eighteenth century to take advantage of the sea views, prior to land reclamation projects associated with the enlargement of Dublin Port. The houses were built by Charles ffolliot, reputedly to spite Lord Charlemont, blocking the vista from Marino House, and were locally known as Spite Crescent as a result.