Survey Data
Reg No
50930178
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1800 - 1820
Coordinates
316800, 233098
Date Recorded
15/09/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay four-storey former townhouse over basement, built c. 1810, with shallow bowed-bay to west rear (south) elevation. Now in use as offices. M-profile pitched roof with shouldered rendered chimneystacks, replacement to west, with lipped yellow clay pots, concealed behind brick parapet (rebuilt to rear), with granite coping, concealed gutters with uPVC downpipes breaking through to rear. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, ruled-and-lined rendered walling to basement with granite stringcourse over. Buff brick to rear, laid to English garden wall bond. Square-headed window openings, two round-headed openings to rear, with projecting granite sills and brick voussoirs; openings diminishing to the upper floors. Largely six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, ten-over-ten to basement, eight-over-eight to ground floor and three-over-three to third floor. uPVC windows to much of rear elevation. Cast-iron grilles affixed to basement and round-headed rear openings, decorative cast-iron balconettes fixed to sills of first floor window openings on principal elevation. 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 flanked by cast-iron railings on granite plinth, enclosing basement well to west. Replacement granite steps and mild-steel handrail to basement well with square-headed timber-panelled door located underneath entrance platform. Street fronted on south side of Baggot Street Lower, abutted by similar terraces to east and west. Recent two-storey mews building to south, fronting onto Hagan’s Court.
Appraisal
Built as a cohesive terrace comprising Nos. 94-8 (50930174-9), the buildings are fine examples of late-Georgian townhouses. 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. 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.