Survey Data
Reg No
50930258
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1820 - 1840
Coordinates
316358, 232883
Date Recorded
20/10/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1830, with two-stage flat-roofed return to rear (north) elevation, having sanitary out-shoot. Now in use as offices. M-profile roof, hipped to west, concealed by brick parapet with masonry coping, rendered chimneystacks to east party wall with lipped yellow clay pots. Parapet gutters with uPVC hopper and downpipe to west side of rear (north). Brown brick walling laid in Flemish bond, rendered walling to basement beneath granite plinth course. Rendered walls to western bay of rear (north) elevation. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, rendered reveals and granite sills, round-headed opening to eastern elevation of return. Plain rendered surrounds to basement. Wrought-iron guard rails to second floor openings. Largely replacement six-over-six sliding timber sash windows with convex or chamfered horns, ten-over-ten to basement, three-over-three to third floor. Some Wyatt-style windows to rear (north) and enlarged opening to south elevation of return incorporating a timber sash. Round-headed door opening to principal elevation (south) with brick voussoirs, moulded reveals with recessed doorcase having prostyle Ionic portico with moulded cornice and frieze over Ionic columns, decorative cast-iron fanlight and timber door with beaded-muntin and round-headed panels. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot scraper, approached by four nosed granite steps, flanked by iron railings with decorative cast-iron finials and corner posts over granite plinth enclosing basement area. Replacement mild-steel stairwell to basement with replacement timber door beneath entrance platform. Enclosed yard to rear. Two-storey modernised mews building and replacement boundary wall to Leeson Close.
Appraisal
Despite the loss of some historic fabric, this former townhouse has retained a fine doorcase and fanlight. It forms part of a relatively intact terraced row. Nos. 63-9 (50930253-9), likely built by Thomas Dockerell, proceeded those to the west Nos. 71-76, (5093046-51) and are subsequently grander in scale, defined by higher floor levels and larger window openings. (Casey, 2005) Although the street is largely characterised by typical late-Georgian townhouses, the variations in detailing, proportions and scale are indicative of the speculative nature of development. The main route from St. Stephen’s Green to Donnybrook, Leeson Street remained largely undeveloped until the late-eighteenth century and was almost entirely complete by 1836.