Land parcel 1737327

Area

370 m²

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,339 m².

Zoning

O2 Z8: Georgian Conservation Areas (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
M2 Z5: City Centre (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 19 Apr 2024Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: permission for the creation of a medicine museum at basement and lower ground floor levels at 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2, D02 E434, which is a protected structure. The creation of the museum includes for : forming a new entrance by lowering an existing window ope on the front (Kildare Street) facade at basement level, renewing the existing disabled hoist from Kildare Street level down to basement level, removing the floor within the lower ground floor lecture theatre to create a double height exhibition space at basement level and forming to new opes into this new double height exhibition space, remodelling of the existing basement plant room to facilitate the installation of exhibition cases, removing the spiral stairs from the reception at ground level down to basement level, providing new toilet facilities for use by museum visitors at basement level, modifying air systems, fire detection and alarm, small power and IT infrastructure to suit the museum and installing specialist lighting, sundry associated upgrading conservation and renovation works. Other associated works that are not part of the creation of the museum: upgrading the existing passenger lift, removing the obsolete service hoist within the building and so provide increased storage space at basement level a staff changing room for the kitchen staff at lower ground floor level increased storage at upper ground floor level, creating a new furniture store at lower ground floor level, within the winter hall, converting the food servery beside Dun Library back to being librarian's office, providing a new ship's ladder access up to the existing open plant deck at roof level, sundry associated upgrading conservation and renovation works.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3554/24

• 11 Apr 2024Application declared inva

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: For the creation of a Medicine Museum at basement and lower ground floor levels at 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2, D02 E434, which is a PROTECTED STRUCTURE. The creation of the museum includes for: • Forming a new entrance by lowering an existing window ope on the front (Kildare Street) façade at basement level. • Renewing the existing disabled hoist from Kildare Street level down to basement level • Removing the floor within the lower ground floor Lecture Theatre to create a double height exhibition space at basement level, and forming two new opes into this new double height exhibition space • Remodelling of the existing basement plantroom to facilitate the installation of exhibition cases • Removing the spiral stairs from the reception at ground level down to basement level. • Providing new toilet facilities for use by museum visitors at basement level • Modifying air systems, fire detection and alarm, small power and IT infrastructure to suit the museum, and installing specialist lighting. • Sundry associated upgrading, conservation and renovation works. •Other associated works that are not part of the creation of the museum: • Upgrading the existing passanger lift • Removing the obsolete service hoist within the building and so provide Increased storage space at basement level o A staff changing room for the kitchen staff at lower ground floor level o Increased storage at upper ground floor level • Creating a new furniture store at lower ground floor level, within the Winter Hall • Converting the food servery beside Dun Library back to being the Librarian's Office • Providing a new ship's ladder access up to the existing open plant deck at roof level. •Sundry associated upgrading, conservation and renovation works.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3522/24

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

• National Library of Ireland, house, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay four-storey former townhouse over basement, built c. 1750 and modified 1869. Now in use as offices for National Library. Front has pitched roof, rear is pitched to south end and hipped to north and has flat roof to northernmost part, concealed behind brick parapet with masonry coping and moulded brick dentil cornice, and having brick chimneystacks with replacement clay pots, parapet gutters, and cast-iron downpipe to south. Flemish bond red brick walling, over painted smooth rendered walling to basement; brick to rear. Square-headed window openings to upper floors, having slightly projecting smooth rendered reveals, painted masonry sills and brick voussoirs; window openings to basement blocked. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Portico has pediment with block modillions, Doric entablature, engaged Doric columns on moulded plinth blocks with moulded skirting to entrance platform, and replacement six-panel door with smooth rendered reveals, moulded cornice and plain fanlight. Granite entrance platform with three steps to street, flanked by cast-iron railings on granite plinth over basement. Basement area bounded by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on moulded granite plinths. Granite block staircase to basement with cast-iron railings.

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_3234 (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.