Survey Data
Reg No
50100573
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1835 - 1840
Coordinates
317045, 233284
Date Recorded
29/07/2016
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay three-storey former house over basement, built c. 1836 as one in terrace of ten (Nos. 1-10), having two and three-storey return to west end of rear. Now in use as apartments. M-profile pitched slate roof, rear span slightly higher than front and hipped to west end, brick parapet with granite coping, rendered chimneystacks to east, and concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond red brick walling with rusticated stone quoins to east end on painted granite plinth course over painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling; rendered walling to rear. Square-headed window openings having painted masonry sills, painted rendered reveals and brick voussoirs. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to top floor, with ogee horns, replacement side-hinged timber casements to ground and first floors with overlights, and multiple-pane metal casements to basement. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor openings and steel grille to basement. Apparently replacement windows to rear. Round-headed door opening with moulded surround and painted masonry doorcase having engaged fluted Doric columns, plain entablature, peacock's tail fanlight and four-panel bolection-moulded timber door with beaded muntin and replacement brass furniture. Shared sandstone-paved entrance platform with two stages of three and seven granite steps, with decorative cast-iron boot-scrape and flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth. Decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings to front boundary on moulded granite plinth. Yard and modernized two-storey rubble stone mews building to rear of plot.
Appraisal
A Georgian-style house, forming part of a cohesive terrace, Nos. 1-10 Mount Street Crescent. Although modest in scale, compared with the adjoining houses on Mount Street Upper, the group features high basements with ground floors accessed via long flights of granite steps. The front elevations exhibit well-balanced proportions typical of the period and are enlivened by Greek Doric doorcases, pretty fanlights and decorative ironwork. The street-line is stepped to the west at No. 1, effectively marking the junction between Mount Street Upper and Mount Street Crescent. The terrace was completed in 1836-7, with eight of the houses constructed by a barrister, Joseph Gabbett, and the remaining two by Daniel Litton and a Mr Hutton. Largely well-retained, the terraced group is set back from the street-line to provide an oval-shaped space within which stands St. Stephen's Church, a building that dominates the streetscape and creates an interesting centrepiece terminating one of the key vistas of Georgian Dublin.