Survey Data
Reg No
50930177
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1800 - 1820
Coordinates
316796, 233101
Date Recorded
15/09/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay four-storey townhouse over basement, built c. 1810, with shallow bowed-bay to west of rear (south) elevation and two-storey hip-roofed return to east-side of rear. Now in use as offices. M-profile pitched roof, hipped to the east, with shouldered brick chimneystacks to west party wall with lipped clay pots, concealed behind rebuilt brick parapet with granite coping, concealed gutters with uPVC hoppers and downpipes breaking through to rear. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, ruled-and-lined rendered walling to basement with granite stringcourse. Buff brick to rear, laid to English garden wall bond. Square-headed window openings, single round-headed opening to rear, with projecting granite sills and brick voussoirs (some rebuilt); openings diminishing to the upper floors. Largely original six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, eight-over-eight to ground floor, ten-over-ten to basement, three-over-three to third floor, two-over two to third floor rear and some recent replacements to second floor rear. Cast-iron balconettes to first floor, wrought-iron guard rails to second floor and cast-iron grille to basement reveals. Round-headed door opening to eastern bay of principal elevation with Neo-classical doorcase comprising engaged Ionic columns on plinth stops supporting fluted frieze with rosettes and moulded cornice, plain glass fanlight over eleven-panelled timber door with brass furniture. Paved granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot scraper and one step to street. Cast-iron railings on granite plinth, enclosing basement well to west, accessed via recent steel steps and having recent timber door beneath platform. Street fronted on the south side of Baggot Street Lower, abutted by similar terraces to east and west.
Appraisal
Built as a cohesive terrace comprising Nos. 94-8 (50930174-9), the buildings are fine examples of late-Georgian townhouses, and the group is distinguished by the large ground floor windows and the bowed rear elevations. The materials, massing and proportions contribute to the strong architectural continuity of Baggot Street Lower, however the subtle discrepancies between the levels, detailing and materials of neighbouring groups 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.