Survey Data
Reg No
50130312
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Rathdown Terrace
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1880 - 1900
Coordinates
314558, 235671
Date Recorded
29/06/2018
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c. 1890 as one of terrace of six, having full-height return to rear (south) elevation. M-profile pitched roof, having red brick chimneystacks with clay pots to each end and to return, profiled metal gutter supported on corbelled yellow brick eaves course over yellow brick course, and replacement uPVC downpipe to east end. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, having yellow brick stringcourse, over granite plinth course and snecked limestone walls to basement to front elevation; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings, having red brick block-and-start surrounds to basement, granite sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed principal doorway with carved timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters having scrolled brackets, supporting timber frieze, moulded cornice and plain fanlight, and timber four-panel door with glazed upper panels, approached by flight of eleven nosed granite steps and granite platform, shared with house to west, having wrought-iron handrails to each side, and polychrome tiled path. Square-headed doorway to basement with red brick block-and-start surround and timber door. Garden to front, bounded by cast-iron railings on cut granite plinth, with cast-iron pedestrian gate having ornate piers.
Appraisal
This well-built house forms part of terrace of six late nineteenth-century houses with similar parapet heights and fenestration patterns. The combination of snecked limestone and red brick adds visual and textural interest to the facade. The corbelled brick detailing to the eaves and the tiled path place the house in a late nineteenth-century context. Its well-detailed entrance provides a decorative focus. North Circular Road was laid out in the 1780s to create a convenient approach to the city, but developed slowly over the following century with little development west of Phibsborough until the 1870s.