Reg No
50920176
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1775 - 1780
Coordinates
315759, 233204
Date Recorded
13/10/2015
Date Updated
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Terraced three-bay four-storey former townhouse over basement, built 1776-8, as a pair with No. 89 (50920177). Now in commercial office use. Pitched roof with hipped returns to rear with rendered chimneystack to south party wall having lipped yellow clay pots, concealed behind rebuilt brick parapet with masonry coping. Concealed gutters with cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to south. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond over rendered basement with granite stringcourse. Square-headed window openings with projecting masonry sills, patent reveals and brick voussoirs. Six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three to third floor. Round-headed door opening to northern bay with masonry doorcase comprising panelled pilasters rising to imposts supporting moulded architrave over cobwebbed fanlight. Eight panelled timber entrance door opening onto granite entrance platform with two steps to street flanked by cast-iron railings on granite plinth enclosing basement well to south. Street fronted onto the eastern side of Harcourt Street.
Harcourt Street was developed by John Hatch in the 1770s, but was only granted permission to fully develop the street by the Wide Street Commissioners in 1791. This former townhouse is a fine example of the typical Dublin Georgian idiom and makes an important contribution to the historic streetscape. Along with No. 89, and a house Hatch completed for himself in the middle of the west side, it dates to the early phase of building on the street. According to Casey (2005) 'Thomas Ivory built Nos. 89-90 in 1776-8, relatively modest houses with some original joinery, and a curious plan to No. 90 with a deep arched recess at the rear of the first-floor front room framing the entrance to the back room.'