Land parcel 1876061

Area

761 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 349 m².

Zoning

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

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 1 Dec 2023Split decision(permission & refusal)

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The proposed development will consist of: The demolition of the existing buildings at Nos.. 38-43 James's Place East. The construction of a part 4, part 5 part 6 and part 7 storey Hotel building over basement level on the site to the rear of Nos. 37-43 Mount Street Upper fronting onto James's Place East; • Change of use of No. 38, 39 and 40 Mount Street Upper from office to hotel use and associated changes to layout to accommodate the change of use; • The hotel will provide for a total of 300 no. guest rooms and will have an overall floor area of c. 11,550sq.m within the new build development, and 1,540sq.m within Nos. 38, 39 and 40 Mount Street Upper; • Provision of a glazed link and bridge from the rear of Nos. 38 and 39 Mount Street Upper to the proposed hotel building at ground floor level; • Provision of 2 no. platform lifts to the front of No. 38 and 39 Mount Street Upper; • Provision of a glazed link and bridge from the rear of No. 38 and 39 Mount Street Upper to the proposed hotel building at ground floor level; • Provision of a multi-use school space (c. 180sq.m at ground floor level within the hotel building fronting James's Place East; • Provision of an arts/cultural space (c. 130sq.m at lower ground floor level within No. 38 Mount Street Upper; • Change of use of Nos. 37 and 41 Mount Street Upper from office to residential to provide 8 no. 1 bed apartment units and 1 no. 3 bed apartment unit and 1 no. 4 bed apartment unit; • Conversion of the existing mews building at No. 50 James's Place East (to the rear of No. 50 Mount Street Upper) to a residential dwelling (2 no. bedrooms); • Construction of a 3 storey residential building to the rear of No. 47 Mount Street Upper fronting onto James's Place East to provide for a total of 2 no. 2 bedroom apartment units; • Construction of a 3 storey residential building located between the rear of No. 50 Mount Street Upper and the rear of No. 50 James's Place East to provide for a total of 1 no. studio unit and 2 no. 2 bedroom apartment units; • Provision of a park within the grounds of Nos. 33-34 Mount Street Upper; • Provision of bicycle spaces to serve the proposed development and; • All ancillary landscaping, boundary treatments, associated infrastructure, and site development works to support the development.

  Permission, 16 homes · Dublin City Council, 4899/23

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

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1850, single-storey portico entrance to east elevation and full-height canted-bays to east and rear (south) elevations. Now in office use. Profile pitched slate roofs, hipped to east ends, behind brick parapet with parapet gutters, moulded projecting masonry coping and platband, rear span having two pitched roofs perpendicular to street and hipped to south ends. Rendered chimneystacks to west party wall. Cast-iron downpipes and replacement hopper. Refaced Flemish bond red brick walling to upper floors of north elevation and to entrance bay of east elevation, with granite quoins to corners, rusticated ashlar granite to ground floor of street (north) elevation and portico on projecting granite course over tool-faced ashlar granite basement walls. Remainder (south end) of east elevation, and south elevation, are of Flemish bond red brick on granite plinth over rusticated granite basement walls. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with replacement granite sills (continuous sill course to first floor of front, east and south elevations), those to north elevation set in recessed brick surrounds having chamfered reveals and heads, and with over-sized granite keystones to first floor; dressed granite surrounds to basement openings. Largely replacement timber sliding sash windows with horns, mainly one-over-one pane, but south elevation having two-over-two pane to top floor and to some openings of second floor. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to second and top floors of entrance bay and one opening to top floor of adjacent canted-bay and with decorative timber pelmet to second floor of entrance bay; wrought-iron grilles to basement. Projecting Greek Doric portico to entrance, comprising fluted engaged pairs of pilasters and freestanding columns on pedestals, with entablature having triglyphs, guttae and modillioned frieze; cast-iron balustraded parapet with moulded masonry coping and panelled end piers; recessed square-headed door opening with rusticated granite surround, shouldered plain transom light over dentillated timber lintel, and double-leaf timber panelled door. Granite-paved entrance platform with three curved bull-nosed steps. Plot enclosed by decorative spear-headed cast-iron railings over moulded granite plinth, with matching gates on elaborate, ornate cast-iron piers with ball finials. Secondary door opening to rear (south) in recently rendered plain gabled surround with replacement timber door. Plain square-headed replacement timber doors to basement, accessed by granite steps. Sandstone stone staircase with mild steel balustrade to basement.

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.