Survey Data
Reg No
50081075
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1790 - 1830
Coordinates
314797, 232377
Date Recorded
02/12/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Terrace of three double-pile two-bay two-storey over raised basement houses, built c.1810, having later extensions to rear (south) elevation. M-profile pitched slate and artificial slate roof, having brown brick chimneystacks, and parapet to front elevation with granite coping. Brown brick walls laid in Flemish bond to front elevation, having string plinth course over rendered walls to basement. Brown brick walls laid in English garden wall bond to rear elevations. Rendered walls to east gable and front and rear elevations of no.3. Square-headed window openings having render reveals, painted sills, and timber sash windows having six-over-six, three-over-three, and one-over-one panes. Round-headed door openings having carved timber doorcases with decorative corbels, petal fanlights, timber panelled doors, and flights of granite steps, shared to no.2 and no.3. Rendered piers to site entrance, and rendered boundary wall. Cast-iron pedestrian gate and rendered pier to east of site.
Appraisal
Addressing Dublin’s Grand Canal, this terrace of houses forms part of a longer terrace which was built shortly after the completion of the circular line of the canal in 1797. The terrace was built on lands belonging to the Earl of Meath, beside the river Poddle and the Greenmount Spinning Manufactory which was built in 1808. This land had been the site of a corn mill since the mid-eighteenth century. The houses along the terrace exhibit a well-designed and well-executed early suburban architecture. The quality of materials, and composition and scale of the houses create a pleasing coherent design, making a positive architectural contribution to the street and to the setting of the Grand Canal.