Survey Data
Reg No
50930172
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Restaurant
Date
1815 - 1820
Coordinates
316771, 233125
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 extension to west-side of rear (south). Now in use as a restaurant, with hotel accommodation above, extending into neighbouring building No. 99 (50930173). M-profile roof, hipped to west-end, shouldered rendered chimneystacks to east party wall with replacement pots, concealed behind rebuilt brick parapet with granite coping, rendered parapet to rear, concealed gutters with uPVC downpipe to rear. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond, rendered walling to rear elevation and basement, with granite stringcourse over basement. Square-headed window openings with projecting granite sills (some concrete to rear), patent reveals and brick voussoirs to north; openings diminishing to upper floors, those to third floor rear enlarged. Plain rendered surrounds to basement and rear. Largely six-over-six timber sliding sash windows with horns, three-over-three to third floor, one-over-one to ground floor, uPVC casements to rear elevation and extension, multi-paned timber casement to basement. Round-headed door opening to western bay of principal elevation with brick voussoirs over replacement doorcase comprising rendered linings, engaged Doric columns supporting fluted frieze and cornice, flanked by blocked and rendered sidelights, plain glass fanlight over replacement door. Square-headed door opening to ground floor rear with double-leaf recent doors. Paved granite entrance platform, accessed from street by two granite steps, flanked by cast-iron railings with decorative corner posts on granite plinth, enclosing basement well to east. Pair of square-headed door openings to re-entrant angle beneath entrance platform, having recent doors with canopy. Street fronted on the south side of Baggot Street Lower, abutted by similar terraces to east and west. Modernised two-storey half-hipped mews building to south, fronting onto Hagan’s Court, having buff brick walls laid to English garden wall bond, rendered window surrounds, replacement sills and uPVC windows, square-headed integral carriage-arch to east-bay with angled inner west-wall and recent steel gate.
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 a loss of historic fabric, the materials, massing and proportions of the principal elevation 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 the much of street, thus diversifying the homogeneity. Although the streetscape of the southern-side 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.