Survey Data
Reg No
50130313
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Rathdown Terrace
Original Use
House
In Use As
Surgery/clinic
Date
1880 - 1900
Coordinates
314565, 235674
Date Recorded
11/07/2018
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey former house over raised basement, built c. 1890 as one of terrace of six, having full-height return to rear (south) elevation. Now in use as clinic. M-profile pitched roof, having red brick chimneystacks with clay pots to east and west ends and to return, profiled metal gutter supported on bracketed over yellow brick eaves course, and with replacement uPVC downpipe to west end. Red brick walling 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 with foliate brackets supporting timber frieze and moulded cornice, plain fanlight, and bolection-moulded timber four-panel door, approached by flight of ten nosed and one plain granite steps and granite platform shared with house to west, with mild steel handrail to east and wrought-iron handrail to west. Square-headed doorway with red brick block-and-start surround to basement. Cast-iron railings to front boundary 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 places the house in a late nineteenth-century context. Its well-detailed entrance provides a decorative focus. The 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.