Survey Data
Reg No
50930288
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Restaurant
Date
1820 - 1840
Coordinates
316328, 233013
Date Recorded
11/11/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Attached end-of-terrace two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1830, now in use as restaurant and offices. Mansard-style roof, hipped to east end, rendered chimneystack to west with replacement clay pots, concealed by parapet with moulded granite cornice. Parapet gutters. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond over rendered walling to basement beneath granite stringcourse. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, granite sills and largely six-over-six sliding timber sash windows with convex horns, three-over-three to third floor. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first and second floor openings. Elliptical-headed door opening with brick voussoirs and moulded reveals and recessed surround containing portico with frieze and moulded cornice carried on Ionic columns over plinth stops with petal fanlight and raised-and-field timber panelled double-leaf door with glazed upper panels having decorative iron guard. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot scraper, approached by five bull-nosed granite steps, flanked to west by iron railings with decorative cast-iron finials and collars on granite plinth, enclosing basement area. Square-headed door opening to basement level with replacement timber and glass door in plain rendered surrounds. Coal-hole cover to pavement. Twentieth-century garages line plot to north on Stable Lane.
Appraisal
Laid out c. 1820, Pembroke Street Upper is characterised by well-proportioned late-Georgian style brick terraces which display restrained detailing and classically-styled doorcases. No. 23 forms part of a cohesive terrace comprising Nos. 20-3 (50930288-91), which is largely well-retained and distinguished by good Ionic doorcases, petal fanlights and decorative ironwork. The terrace makes a positive contribution to the streetscape and to the wider historic Georgian core of south Dublin.