Survey Data
Reg No
50130279
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Royal Terrace
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1870 - 1880
Coordinates
314337, 235619
Date Recorded
05/06/2018
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c. 1875 as one of terrace of four, having return to rear (north) elevation. M-profile pitched roof with rendered chimneystacks having clay pots to east end, hidden behind moulded granite cornice and granite eaves course. Red brick walls to upper floors, laid in Flemish bond, over cut masonry plinth course with channelled rendered walls to basement; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to upper floors; replacement uPVC sliding sash window to basement. Round-headed principal doorway with render rope-moulded reveals and carved timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters supporting dentillated timber frieze and plain fanlight, with timber panelled door; square-headed doorway to basement, under steps, with rendered reveals. Flight of nine nosed granite steps and platform, with wrought-iron handrail having decorative cast-iron panel, on granite plinth wall to east side. Rendered wall to front boundary, with granite coping, rendered piers with concrete caps, and replacement steel pedestrian gate.
Appraisal
This well-built house is part of a terrace of four late nineteenth-century houses with similar parapet heights and fenestration patterns. Its attractive frontage is ornamented by a granite cornice, and elaborate rope-mouldings to the entrance. Retention of mostly timber sash windows enhances the historic appearance of the building. The granite coped wall provides a sense of enclosure from the adjoining the busy road. The North Circular Road was laid out in the 1780s to create a convenient approach to the city. It developed slowly over the following century with little development west of Phibsborough till the 1870s.