Land parcel 1731491

Area

129 m²

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 413 m².

Zoning

M3 Z3: Neighbourhood Centres (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

• Botanic House, hotel, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached five-bay two-storey L-plan former hotel with dormer attic, dated 1913, having castellated canted oriel window on corbelled limestone base to first floor centre, and full-height square block to southwest. Now in use as public house. Faces east onto Botanic Road, with rear vehicular entrance screen facing west onto Prospect Avenue. Hipped slate roof with angled ridge tiles, six dormer windows to east pitch having slate-hung sides; raised brick screen-verges with saddleback terracotta copings; two tall red brick chimneystacks to north and south gables and one to west pitch, having limestone banding and corniced caps; ogee profile cast-iron rainwater goods with fleur-de-lys fixings. Red and orange brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, to east elevation and having limestone banding and plinth; red brick walling to north and south elevations; brown brick walling to rear elevations and to southwest block. Square-headed windows; first floor openings are three-light to front of oriel and single-light to each side, and two-light to flanking bays, with limestone transoms, mullions and surrounds, continuous flush limestone lintels and sills with slightly recessed semi-circular panels above having basket-weave tiles, voussoired heads and limestone key blocks, and flush timber four-over-four-over-six-pane casement windows; dormers have hipped roofs and flush casement four-over-six pane windows; oriel one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to rear with red brick soldier arch heads and stone sills. Arrangement of three square-headed pubfront windows to ground floor to each side of front entrance; flush multiple-pane timber transomed and mullioned casements with bevelled glass, and having moulded limestone sill and dividing piers, and red brick aprons; timber fascias with scrolled brackets to each end. Round-headed central recessed doorway with chamfered jambs, limestone impost moulding, quadripartite staged head; double-leaf half-glazed timber door with cross-shaped lower panels; and tiled floor. Rear yard enclosed by extension and by red brick screen wall stepped over round-headed vehicular entrance having timber-sheeted doors. Interior has timber panelled porch with red and black tiled floor, and double-leaf door with etched glass upper panels to each side leading to fully refurbished contemporary bars.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3205 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.