Land parcel 1916141

Area

17,392 m² (1.74 ha, 4.3 acres)

Buildings

8 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 4,474 m².

Zoning

M2 Z5: City Centre (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
S5 Z15: Community and Social Infrastructure (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 9 Aug 2024Grant permission

  The proposed development will consist of works to a protected structure on the DCC. RPS No. 7840 and is recorded on the record of monuments and places, rmp record id du018-020341, and will be comprised of the replacement of existing modern of windows comprised of steel aluminium and upvc casement and vertical pivot windows, with new timber framed sliding sash windows; and the replacement of 2 no. Solid timber double doors including transom windows with solid timber doors, and all associated site works at the south and west elevations of the main hospital building and the north, south and west elevations of the 2-storey block to the west of the main hospital building.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4135/24

• 28 Feb 2022Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Planning permission for development on a site (0.156 ha) located within St. Patrick's University Hospital campus, James's Street, Dublin 8 (overall site area of c.4.2 ha, which includes a Protected Structure; Dublin City Council RPS Ref. 856). The development will consist of maintenance and upgrade works to the original building (Protected Structure) including external repairs to roofs, chimneystacks and the replacement of defective rainwater goods; replacement windows; general elevational works including repairs to stone elevations and repointing; interior works to the building at principal level including the removal of 20th century internal partitions, suspended ceilings and wall linings and the reinstatement of I no. original door ope; and all associated localised interior repair works.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3387/22

• 9 Sept 2020Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of the demolition of existing garden stores and the proposed construction of a waste management storage facility. The development will be carried out within the curtilage of a protected structure (reference Dr. Steeven's Hospital - 7840).

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3343/20

• 9 Sept 2020Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of the demolition of the existing HUI Building at Dr. Steeven's Hospital, Dublin. The development will be carried out within the curtilage of a protected structure. (Dr. Steeven's Hospital - reference 7840).

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3344/20

• 1 May 2019Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Planning permission for development on this site located within St. Patrick's University Hospital campus, James's Street, Dublin 8 Overall site area of c.4.2 ha, which includes a Protected Structure: Dublin City Council RPS Ref. 856). The development will consist of the provision of additional floor space comprising a part-four storey development to incorporate a ground floor in-patient bedroom extension (13 no. bedrooms) to the existing 'Willow Grove' Adolescent Care Unit with associated recreation hall, staff, clinical support and daily living spaces (956 sq.m). roof mounted plant room (36 sq m) linked to existing structures at ground and first floor level, including secure internal landscaped courtyards. The development will also include an advocacy and research National Hub for Mentally Healthy Living, located over the proposed Adolescent Unit extension (898 sq.m) all to the south eastern corner of the hospital campus. The development will also include the demolition of an existing single storey recreation hall building (466 sq.m); piped infrastructure and ducting, landscaping and boundary treatments, internal roads and pathways, bicycle parking, changes in level, plant, interfaces with existing historic structures and all associated site development and excavation works above and below ground.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2881/19

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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.

• DU018-020341 Hospital
  Description

  Somerville-Large (1996, 133) recorded the following details about this hospital; 'In 1710 Dr Richard Steevens, President of the College of Physicians, left money in trust to his twin sister Grizel with instructions that after her death the money was to be used to found a hospital. Dr Steevens's Hospital was built during her lifetime on a site in open fields to the west beyond Usher's Island, away from infection. The architect was Thomas Burgh. For breakfast patients were given '3 oz. of bread, a pint of grewel or small beer. For dinner there was 8 oz. of bread, 8 oz. of mutton boyled without bones, a quart of beer or mutton broth and a quart of small beer. According to 'several gentlemen who have been abroad' Steevens's was commodious and kept the cleanest of any hospital of its kind in Europe. Swift's Stella left one thousand pounds, the bulk of her fortune, to the hospital to endow a chaplaincy'. In 1780 the building was described as; 'Mrs. Steevens, becoming possessed of the estate, was desirous of seeing her brother's intention executed; and, soon after his death, purchased the ground at the west end of James's Street where it now stands. In 1720 she began the building on a much more extensive plan, than the original fund would support, but was assisted by several considerable bequests and benefactions, which enabled her to complete two thirds of the building in July 1733 when the Hospital was opened, and wards were furnished for the reception of 40 patients, who were admitted in the year 1734. An Act of Parliament was obtained in 1730, appointing twenty-three Governors, and their successors, to be a body politic and corporate for ever, with power to purchase lands of inheritance to the amount of 2000l. per ann. to have a common seal, to sue and be sued, and to make leases. A third of the Hospital remaining unfinished, the Governors opened a subscription which brought in near 1400l. and as Mrs. Steevens continued to pay 450l, per ann. the building was soon compleated, and is, at present, a spacious square, with an area in the center, and round it is a piazza that leads to the different parts of the building, which is capable of receiving three hundred patients' (Pool & Cash 1780, 72-3). Hospital building described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a; 'Detached nineteen-bay two-storey former hospital with dormer attic, dated 1720, opened 1733, comprising four ranges surrounding central courtyard, projecting end-bays to front (east), north and south elevations, shallow pedimented central breakfronts to front and north elevations and shallow central breakfronts to south elevation and end-bays to front, half-basement to front and north elevations. Recent extension to rear (west) elevation. Now in use as offices' (https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/50080083/health-service-executive-steevenss-lane-saint-johns-road-west-dublin-8-dublin; NIAH Reg. No. 50080083). See attached drawing of Dr Steevens’ Hospital by T. G. Wilson taken from https://dr-steevens-hospital-a-history.edwardworthlibrary.ie/ See attached elevation of Dr Steevens’ Hospital taken from Pool and Cash 1780 See attached 1728 elevation of Dr Steevens’ Hospital taken from Brooking's Map of Dublin - https://www.dublinportarchive.com/collection/charles-brooking-map-dublin/ Pool, R. & Cash, J. 1780 Views of the Most Remarkable Public Buildings, Monuments and Other Edifices in the City of Dublin. J. Williams. Dublin. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 June 2023

• DU018-020477 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  De Courcy (1996, 63) mentions a mill race which is depicted at this location on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is shown flowing from S to N immediately to the W of Steevens' Hospital (DU018-020341-). A weir on the River Camac to the E of Swift's Hospital diverts the water into the mill race which feeds a building aligned E-W on the E side of the mill race which may have been a watermill. This building depicted on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map stands on the E side of the mill race immediately W of Steevens' Hospital. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien date of upload: 12 June 2023

Architectural heritage

• Health Service Executive, hospital/infirmary, 1715–1735 · National interest
  Description

  Detached nineteen-bay two-storey former hospital with dormer attic, dated 1720, opened 1733, comprising four ranges surrounding central courtyard, projecting end-bays to front (east), north and south elevations, shallow pedimented central breakfronts to front and north elevations and shallow central breakfronts to south elevation and end-bays to front, half-basement to front and north elevations. Recent extension to rear (west) elevation. Now in use as offices. Hipped sprocketed mansard roofs, rendered chimneystacks with clay chimney pots, cast-iron rainwater goods. Pedimented dormer windows having carved timber cornices and six-over-six or twelve-over-twelve pane timber sash windows. Carved granite eaves course. Octagonal-profile two-stage timber weatherboarded tower over front range, copper weathervane atop copper roof, dentillated cornice. Clock face to front elevation to first stage. Round-headed window openings to second stage, alternating timber sash windows and timber louvered vents. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, painted masonry quoins, platband and plinth course, rendered walls to basement area. Square-headed window openings, granite sills and timber sash windows, sixteen-over-sixteen pane to front, sixteen-over-twelve pane to ground floor and twenty-four-over-twenty pane to first floor to north, twenty-four-over-twenty pane and two-over-two pane to rear, replacement uPVC windows to rear and south elevations. Six-over-six pane timber sash window to apex of pediment to front. Square-headed window openings to apex of pediment to north, carved pedimented granite surround, eight-over-eight pane timber sash window, flanked by oculi having carved granite surrounds and timber framed windows. Tripartite arrangement of timber sash windows over door to north, shared granite sill. Cut calp limestone doorcase to front comprising pilasters supporting segmental-headed pediment and entablature, inscribed plaque and elliptical-arched door opening, having carved surround over double-leaf door with wrought-iron scroll work, wrought-iron scroll-work tympanum. Door opening onto granite platform, cast-iron bootscrape, and splayed steps flanked by granite walls with carved granite coping. Wrought-iron railings on carved granite plinth wall surrounding basement area to front. Doorcase executed in limestone to north elevation, double-leaf timber panelled door, side panels and wrought-iron scroll-work to fanlight over, opening onto granite platform and steps, flanked by granite wall and carved granite copings. Square-headed door opening to north elevation, timber panelled door and overlight. Calp limestone arcade to ground floor to interior, calp voussoirs, dropped keystones and platband at impost level, platband over arcade. Projecting angled bays at attic level to interior courtyard, hipped artificial slate roofs and timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening to interior of courtyard, double-leaf timber panelled door, overlight and sidelights. Square-headed door openings, timber panelled doors and overlights. Square-headed door opening to interior, carved painted masonry surround, dropped keystone, blind opening, inscribed limestone plaque. Inscribed commemorative marble plaque to Grissell Steevens to interior, carved marble surround. Corridor to rear of door to front, stone flagged floor, cast-iron hand-rail with cast-iron hands as brackets, lantern overhead on matching railings. Carved limestone obelisk lamp standard on square-profile plinth to centre of courtyard. Square-profile round-headed cast-iron piers, having decorative panels, flanking double-leaf cast-iron gates with matching railings on carved granite plinth wall to front.

• Health Service Executive, college, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey former school of nursing, built c.1880, having two-bay breakfronts to either end of front (north) elevation and gabled central bay to rear (south) elevation. Now in use as offices. Hipped slate roofs, rendered chimneystacks and clay chimney pots, cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, mixed granite and render sills, three-over-six pane timber sash windows to first floor, six-over-six pane timber sash windows to ground floor. Tripartite, bipartite and single two-over-two pane timber sash windows and one-over-one pane timber sash windows to west and rear elevations, some replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening to front with shouldered carved granite surround, recent door having sidelight and overlight. Rubble stone boundary wall to front, square-headed opening with yellow brick surround, granite coping and steel grille gate.

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 rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3179 (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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