Survey Data
Reg No
50130328
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Charleville Terrace
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1875 - 1885
Coordinates
314490, 235693
Date Recorded
29/06/2018
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c. 1885 as one of terrace of ten, having full-height return to rear (north) elevation. M-profile pitched roof, having terracotta ridge cresting, brick chimneystacks with clay pots to east and west ends and to return, profiled metal gutter supported on bracketed yellow brick eaves course, over further yellow brick course, and square-profile cast-iron downpipe to west end. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, 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, with granite sills and replacement timber windows. Round-headed principal doorway with carved timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters with foliate brackets supporting moulded timber frieze, plain fanlight, and replacement timber door, approached by flight of ten nosed granite steps and granite platform, shared with house to east and having cast-iron bootscrape, with wrought-iron handrails on granite plinths to each side. Square-headed doorway to basement with red brick block-and-start surround. Garden to front, bounded by cast-iron railings on cut granite plinth, having cast-iron pedestrian gate with ornate piers.
Appraisal
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, and the corbelled brick detailing to the eaves places the house in a late nineteenth-century context. Skilled artisanship is evident in the bootscrape, handrails and railings. Its well-detailed entrance and steps provide 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. The terrace was named 'Charleville Terrace' for Charleville House in Wicklow, home of Charles Monck, responsible for development along this stretch of the road.