Reg No
50130326
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Charleville Terrace
Original Use
House
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1875 - 1895
Coordinates
314477, 235687
Date Recorded
27/06/2018
Date Updated
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Terraced two-bay two-storey former house over raised basement, built c. 1885 as one of terrace of ten, having full-height return to rear (north) elevation. Now in use as apartments. M-profile pitched roof, with clay ridge tiles, brick chimneystacks with clay pots to east and west ends and to return, and profiled metal gutter supported on corbelled yellow brick eaves course, over further yellow brick course. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, over granite plinth course and snecked limestone walls to basement to front elevations; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings, having red brick block-and-start surrounds to basement, with granite sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed principal doorway with carved timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters with foliate brackets supporting moulded timber cornice, plain fanlight, and replacement glazed timber door, approached by flight of eleven nosed granite steps and granite platform with cast-iron boot-scrape, shared with house to east, and having wrought-iron handrail on granite plinth to east and wrought-iron handrail to west. Square-headed doorway to basement with red brick block-and-start surround. Cast-iron railings to front boundary on cut granite plinth, with cast-iron pedestrian gate.
This well-built house is part of a terrace of ten late nineteenth-century houses with similar parapet heights and fenestration patterns. The combination of snecked Calp 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 and the boot-scrape and railings display skilled artisanship. The doorcase and steps provide 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. The terrace was named 'Charleville Terrace' for Charleville House in Wicklow, home of Charles Monck, the landowner responsible for development along this stretch of the road.