Land parcel 1732840

Area

139 m²

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 2,148 m².

Zoning

M2 Z5: City Centre (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 23 Jun 2022Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: permission for development at a site of c.388sqm located at Former Tara Street Fire Station, Pearse Street, Dublin 2 (including the Brick Watch Tower - a protected structure RPS no. 7994). It is located on the corner of Tara Street and Pearse Street. The development will consist of change of use from former nightclub/fire station to office at ground floor and basement level, the removal of modern internal finishes and refurbishment including reconfiguration of rooms,relocation of stairs, introduction of lightwells and escape stairs to basement, provision of staff facilities, kitchen area and toilets,restoration and retention of the timber doors and windows, window frames, feature lighting of arches including general external cleaning and restorations,brass nameplates to main entrance, all associated site development works and services provision required to enable the development of the site.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4289/22

• 14 Jun 2022Application declared inva

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Permission for development at a site of c. 388sqm. The development will consist of Change of use from Former Nighclub/Fire Station to Office at Ground Floor and Basement level. The removal of modern internal finishes and refurbishment including reconfiguration of rooms, relocation of stairs, introduction of lightwells and escape stairs to basement. Provision of staff facilities, kitchen area and toilets. Restoration and retention of the timber doors and windows, window frames, feature lighting or arches including general external cleaning and restoration. Brass nameplates to main entrance . All associated site development works, and services provision required to enable the development of the site.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4217/22

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

• Trinity City Hotel, fire station, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited attached five-bay three-storey over basement former fire station, built 1906, having five-bay elevation to south, square-profile six-stage integrated tower with corbelled platform and parapet to sixth stage, with bull-nosed corner bay to southwest. Now in use as hotel. Recent L-plan pitched roof, partly concealed behind carved limestone balustraded parapet, cast-iron rainwater goods. Pyramidal lead roof to tower, over moulded eaves cornice and eaves brackets. Carved dentillated limestone cornice over red brick, laid in English garden wall bond, to upper walls, with moulded brick string course, carved limestone cornice over ashlar limestone and limestone plinth course to ground floor, pilasters dividing bays. Oculi to each elevation of tower having clock face. Recessed panel to ground floor to west elevation of tower with central segmental pediment and carved coat of arms of Dublin. Paired window openings, square-headed to second floor, segmental-headed to first floor, having bull-nosed brick reveals, flush chamfered terracotta sills, square-headed window openings with chamfered sills, flat ogee carving to head, one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout. Paired round-headed window openings to sixth stage of tower, brick cornice forming continuous hood moulding, timber framed windows. Square- and round-headed windows within recessed panel with cogging course second to third stage of tower. Arcade of five segmental-headed carriage arches to south, with bull-nosed carved limestone surrounds and keystones, half-glazed folding timber battened doors, and timber framed overlights. Square-headed door opening to west elevation, timber battened folding door, moulded metal fascia with raised lettering set within shouldered recessed panel over. Situated at junction of Pearse Street and Tara Street.

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_3233 (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.

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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.