Survey Data
Reg No
50010525
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Dunn and Company
Original Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
Restaurant
Date
1915 - 1925
Coordinates
315935, 234654
Date Recorded
30/10/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay four-storey shop over concealed basement, built 1920, now in multiple use as café at ground floor with recent shopfront, and offices on upper floors. Flat roof hidden behind parapet having chimneystacks on party walls shared with No.31 to south and No.33 to north. Unified granite ashlar façade to Nos.29-33 O'Connell Street Lower, sharing same parapet height and having small variations in west elevation. Minimal granite classicism with granite string course to parapet wall. Engaged pilasters to attic storey, dentillated entablature and giant pilasters to first and second floors, pilasters shared with neighbours. Plain moulded platband over channelled engaged pilasters to ground floor. Square-headed window openings with moulded granite window surrounds to first, second and third floors, rectangular moulded panels in low relief to second floor risers. Eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows to second and third floors having ogee horns and ring pulls, and single-pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor having ogee horns. Square-headed opening with side entrance to south of elevation, accessing upper floors. Rear access from Earl Place via modern brick Clery's building.
Appraisal
This terraced retail building shares a unified minimal granite ashlar façade from Nos.29-33, having slight variations in each individual façade. The classical restraint of the overall façade continues to form an important part of the streetscape. Sackville Mall was initiated by Luke Gardiner from 1749 when he purchased land from the Moore Estate and demolished the northern part of Drogheda Street, widening it to create a rectangular Mall. Leases were issued in 1751 and private mansions were built on the east and west sides of the street over the next decade. Gardiner's Mall was extended through Drogheda Street to the river as Lower Sackville Street by the Wide Streets Commissioners during the 1780s and 1790s and Carlisle Bridge was opened to the south of Sackville Street in 1795. Nos.29-34 were rebuilt in 1919 following the destruction of the 1916 Rising to designs by Donnelly, Moore, Keefe & Robinson.