Survey Data
Reg No
50130195
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1890 - 1900
Coordinates
315922, 236321
Date Recorded
02/07/2018
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey former house, built c. 1895 as one of terrace of four, having canted-bay window to ground floor of front (north) elevation, and single-storey return to rear with enclosed yard. Now in use as apartments. M-profile pitched slate roof with angled black ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks with yellow clay pots to east party wall, cogged yellow and black brick eaves course, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, over granite plinth course. Camber-arch window openings with plain reveals, polychrome (red, yellow and black) brick voussoirs, generally granite sills, with continuous sill to canted-bay, and replacement uPVC windows. Entrance recessed within round-headed integral porch, with plain reveals and polychrome brick voussoirs, porch opening now enclosed with replacement uPVC door; square-headed six-panel original timber entrance door (top three panels glazed) with sidelights and transom, approached by granite step with cast-iron boot-scrape. Set back behind front garden, having granite-edged path with red and black tiled central panel, bounded to front by cast-iron railings with decorative finials on cut granite plinth.
Appraisal
This well-built mid-terraced house is part of a group of four late nineteenth-century houses on the south side of St. Alphonsus Road Lower. Taller than others on the road, the group is a dominant feature of the streetscape. Its attractive frontage is ornamented with lively yellow and black voussoirs and high-quality gauged brick detailing, such as the cogged eaves course. St. Alphonsus's Road was laid out in the late nineteenth century as part of the suburban expansion of the Drumcondra area. The road developed from the east, eventually connecting to Iona Road which was set out in the early twentieth century. It is highly representative of the type of housing that characterizes the area, driven by speculative builders who often constructed small groups of terraced houses, resulting in subtle variety of materials and detailing.