Survey Data
Reg No
50920148
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1790 - 1810
Coordinates
315734, 233215
Date Recorded
07/10/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay four-storey over concealed basement former townhouse, built c. 1800, with timber shopfront inserted to ground floor. Now in use as shop. Double-pile slate roof with M-profile ear pile set perpendicular to street and rendered chimneystacks to north party wall. Roof hidden behind parapet with granite coping. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with cement pointing, rebuilt to rear elevation in concrete brick. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with masonry sills and replacement timber casement windows. Rendered ground floor with timber shopfront comprising large multi-pane timber display window and double-leaf timber glazed doors all flanked by flat-panelled pilasters with timber fascia and lead-lined hood cornice. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with masonry Ionic doorcase comprising historic timber door with ten raised-and-fielded panels and brass door furniture flanked by engaged Ionic columns, decorative lead sidelights, and further Ionic pilasters, all supporting stepped and fluted lintel cornice with decorative leaded fanlight. Door and shop entrance open onto granite paved platform leading directly to street.
Appraisal
A substantial former townhouse that has lost all original fenestration but retains a handsome Ionic doorcase, as well as its historic parapet height, proportions and scale, which are in keeping with the neighbouring buildings. It forms an intrinsic part of an impressive terrace of former townhouses lining the west side of Harcourt Street, adding to the wealth of Georgian domestic fabric in the vicinity of St. Stephen’s Green.