Survey Data
Reg No
50930169
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1815 - 1820
Coordinates
316758, 233139
Date Recorded
15/09/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay four-storey former townhouse over basement, built 1818, with two-bays to upper floors of principal (north) elevation. Two-storey return abuts to east-side of rear (south). Now in use as offices. M-profile roof with terracotta ridge tiles, hipped to east-end, shouldered rendered and brick chimneystacks to west party wall with clay pots, concealed behind rebuilt brick parapet with granite coping, concealed gutters with uPVC hoppers and downpipes to rear. Rendered chimney to south gable of return having octagonal clay pots. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond, painted rendered walling to return and basement, with granite stringcourse over basement. Square-headed window openings with projecting granite sills, patent reveals and brick voussoirs, openings diminishing to upper floors. Plain rendered surrounds to basement and return. Round-headed opening between first and second floor rear. Metal bars affixed to basement and first floor rear openings. Largely six-over-six timber sliding sash windows with horns, three-over-three to third floor, one-over-one to basement. Round-headed door opening to eastern bay of principal elevation with Neo-classical doorcase comprising engaged Ionic columns supporting fluted frieze with rosettes and moulded cornice, flanked by blocked and rendered sidelights and Ionic pilasters, plain glass fanlight over eight-panelled timber door with brass furniture. Paved granite entrance platform, with cast-iron boot scraper, accessed from street by two granite steps, flanked by cast-iron railings with decorative corner posts, on granite plinth, enclosing basement well to west. Steel steps to basement, square-headed door opening located beneath entrance platform, plainly detailed with uPVC and glazed door with sidelight. Street fronted onto the south side of Baggot Street Lower, abutted by similar terraces to east and west. Yard to rear bound by modern metal gate to south on Hagan’s Court.
Appraisal
Built as a cohesive terrace comprising Nos. 99-104 (50930168-73), the buildings are fine examples of late-Georgian townhouses, characterised by slightly grander doorcases than those of neighbouring groups. Despite some loss of historic fabric, the materials, massing and restrained detailing contribute to the strong architectural continuity which remains on the south-side of Baggot Street Lower. Notably, with two-bays on the upper floors and three-bays on the ground floor, this group diverges from the pattern of openings which dominate much of the street, thus diversifying its homogeneity. Although the streetscape is characterised by similar terraced groups, the subtle discrepancies between levels, detailing and materials is indicative of the speculative nature of its development. Baggot Street, as it became known in 1773, is an ancient route from the city which was named after the manor granted to Robert Bagod in the thirteenth-century, called Baggotrath. Developed on Fitzwilliam’s land during the late-eighteenth century, construction of the street progressed slowly due to the economic recession of the 1790s; the area to the west of Fitzwilliam Street was built by the late 1790s but development to the east was more gradual with gaps remaining until the mid-nineteenth century.