Reg No
50130309
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Rathdown Terrace
Original Use
House
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1880 - 1900
Coordinates
314514, 235650
Date Recorded
15/06/2018
Date Updated
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Terraced two-bay two-storey two-pile former house over raised basement, built c. 1890 as one of terrace of fourteen, having full-height return to rear (south) elevation. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to east end of rear pile, with clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks having clay pots to east and west ends and to return, profiled metal gutter supported on corbelled yellow brick eaves course, and cast-iron downpipe to west end. Red brick walling to upper floors, laid in Flemish bond, with yellow brick stringcourse over granite plinth course with snecked limestone walls to basement; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings with granite sills, having red brick block-and-start surround to basement, and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed principal doorway, with carved timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters having scrolled brackets, supporting timber frieze and plain fanlight, and having timber panelled door; square-headed doorway to basement with red brick block-and-start surround and replacement uPVC door. Flight of ten nosed granite steps and granite platform shared with house to east and having cast-iron bootscrape, and having wrought-iron handrails to each side with cast-iron uprights. Garden to front, bounded by decorative cast-iron railings on cut granite plinth, and having decorative cast-iron pedestrian gate with ornate piers.
This well-built house is part of a terrace of fourteen late nineteenth-century houses with similar parapet heights and fenestration patterns. The combination of snecked limestone and red brick adds visual and textural interest to the facade. The corbelled brick detailing to the eaves places the house in a late nineteenth-century context. Its impressive steps and intact setting details considerably enhance the setting. The North Circular Road was laid out in the 1780s to create a convenient approach to the city, but developed slowly over the following century with little development west of Phibsborough till the 1870s.