Survey Data
Reg No
50120101
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1790 - 1795
Coordinates
317961, 236438
Date Recorded
26/10/2017
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-pile three-storey house over raised basement, built 1792 as one of twenty-five, with three-bay ground floor and two-bay upper floors, and with two-storey return to rear (north) elevation. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to east end, with terracotta ridge tiles, shared rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to west end, hidden behind rendered parapet having moulded render cornice, and eaves course, and with lean-to roof to return. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls and cut masonry plinth course above basement. Square-headed window openings with masonry sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to upper floors of front and replacement timber windows to basement, round-headed one-over-one pane stairs window to rear, and apparently replacement elsewhere. Round-headed doorway with render doorcase comprising panelled pilasters supporting fluted frieze and plain fanlight with moulded render surround on scrolled brackets, with replacement timber door, approached by flight of four granite steps having cast-iron bootscrape to platform, and wrought-iron railings. 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. Although they are later replacements, the timber sash windows add to the overall architectural character of this composition. Skilled artisanship is evident in the execution of the doorcase and ironwork. 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 houses were locally known as Spite Crescent as a result.