Survey Data
Reg No
50930311
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
St. Vincent's Hospital
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Nursing/convalescence home
In Use As
Office
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
316217, 233086
Date Recorded
24/09/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1800, remodelled 1977 and now in use as offices. Pitched roof to front (south) span and irregular M-profile roof to rear, hidden behind refaced brick parapet with granite coping, having shouldered brick chimneystack with lipped yellow clay pots to east party wall and replacement clay pots to west. Projecting stack to rear having chamfered corners and replacement clay pots. Parapet gutters and cast-iron rainwater goods to west end. Yellow brick walls laid in Flemish bond with granite plinth course over ashlar granite wall to basement of front (south) elevation. Square-headed window openings with granite sills, brick voussoirs and patent reveals. Largely six-over-six sliding timber sashes with ogee horns, three-over-three to third floor and having wrought-iron balconettes to first floor. Single round-headed window opening to rear (north). Round-headed door opening with rendered reveals, brick voussoirs and engaged Ionic columns with respond pilasters framing decorative sidelights, supporting fluted frieze and cornice with cobwebbed fanlight, decorative festooned coving and timber panelled door. Granite entrance platform with granite steps flanked by iron railings, continuing east to enclose basement area.
Appraisal
This handsome Georgian townhouse displays well-balanced proportions and a restrained use of detailing, ornamented by the iron work balconettes and Adamesque doorcase, which retains a delicate cobwebbed fanlight. Likely built as a pair with No. 94 (50930312), it forms part of a fine streetscape of similar terraces and contributes to the south Georgian core. Leeson Street forms part of an ancient routeway, Suesey Street, leading from the city to Donnybrook. Located within the Fitzwilliam Estate, which covered much of the south-east of the city, the street was named after Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown. Plots were leased for development in the mid-eighteenth century but, apart from the north-western end, it remained undeveloped until the 1780s. Most of the street was completed by 1836.