Land parcel 2287078

Area

295,002 m² (29.5 ha, 72.9 acres)

Buildings

25 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 15,540 m².

Zoning

P5 City Hinterland (Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation)) The objective
S3 Institutions and Community (Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 26 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission for the following (1) demolition of single storey front entrance porch (2) the construction of a new 2 storey entrance extension to the front façade with 1st floor extension behind over existing single storey element (3) 2 storey rear extension (4) elevational alterations including fenestration alterations and cladding (5) existing single storey roof configuration (6) associated site development works all to the existing part two storey part single storey detached dwelling.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2443427

• 24 Sept 2019Conditional

  Permission for the demolition of existing external window and the construction of a new external door to the southern elevation of existing Health Service Executive building (Gleann Alainn) together with all associated works

  Permission · Cork City Council, 1938723

• 25 Apr 2019Conditional

  (1) porch to front of existing dwelling, (2) detached domestic garage, (3) detached domestic storage shed.

  Retention · Cork City Council, 195040

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

• Saint Stephen's Hospital, gate lodge, 1950–1955 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey former gate lodge, built 1954, now in use as ambulance station. Flat roof with oversailing timber eaves. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with steel fixed and casement windows, arranged in three sets of three across full width of front (south) elevation, and to south ends of east and west elevations. Square-headed half-glazed steel door to west elevation. Stone clad boundary walls with rendered copings and metal railings and gates to site entrance.

• Saint Stephen's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1950–1955 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached irregular-plan twenty-one-bay four-storey hospital over basement, built 1954. Comprising central rectangular-plan five-bay four-storey main block, terminated with projecting bays, and in turn flanked by seven-bay four-storey blocks. Two single-bay four-storey higher projecting blocks to rear (north) elevation with flanking blocks having projecting four-bay four-storey blocks. Multiple-bay single-storey blocks run north perpendicular to main building from towers to rear with multiple-bay single-storey chapel to west block. Flat roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with render cross to chapel wall. Concrete balconies having steel parapet railings. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and steel casement and swivelling windows and some replacement uPVC windows. Leaded window to chapel. Square-headed openings with half-glazed steel doors to balconies, some replaced with uPVC doors. Timber battened door to basement entrance and uPVC doors to main entrance. Square-headed opening to west elevation of western single-storey block having glazed steel door flanked by two pairs of bipartite fixed timber windows, all with overlights.

• Saint Stephen's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1950–1955 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of five detached irregular-plan multiple-bay single-storey hospital wards, built 1954. Units 1, 2 and 3 south-facing, units 4 and 5 north-facing. Wards comprising rectangular-plan blocks with full-length verandahs to front elevations and full-length lower blocks to rear elevations, with recessed bays to east end (west end of units 4 and 5), and south-facing verandah to west end of lower block wrapping around west end (east end of units 4 and 5) of higher block. Flat roofs with oversailing timber eaves, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Rendered plinth walls with pilotis with vertically divided steel-framed overlights to south elevations of verandahs and steel-framed glazed end walls to verandahs, with half-glazed steel double doors to west ends (east end of units 4 and 5). Square-headed openings to front elevations with steel casement windows flanking half-glazed steel double doors, with swivelling overlights over whole. Replacement uPVC windows and doors to units 1 and 2. Square-headed windows to north elevations of taller blocks, and square-headed openings with concrete sills to rear elevations, some with steel casement and swivelling windows, some with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and doors to entrance elevations.

• Saint Stephen's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1950–1955 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan multiple-bay single-storey hospital ward, built 1954, with projecting bow south-east corner of front block, verandah to front (south) elevation and to bow with cantilevered roof, and multiple-bay lower block to rear with canopied entrance bay with glazed supporting walls. Flat roofs with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls and pilotis on rendered plinth wall to veranda. Square-headed openings to front elevation and bow with vertically divided steel fixed windows with swivelling overlights. Square-headed openings to front and east elevations with glazed steel double doors and swivelling overlights. Entrance to rear formed by square-headed opening with glazed timber double doors flanked by fixed steel windows. Square-headed openings with steel fixed, casement, swivelling and pivoting windows to rear elevation and west elevations.

• Saint Stephen's Hospital, chimney, 1950–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding square-profile brick chimney, built c. 1955. Brick plinth, tapered shaft and render corniced coping. Round arch relieving arch motif to base.

• Saint Stephen's Hospital, outbuilding, 1950–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay double-height outbuilding, built c. 1955. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with circular-profile cast-iron flues to roof ridge. Cast-iron rainwater goods and timber eaves. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-profile metal vent pipes to rear. Rendered walls. Square-headed opening with strip window having steel-framed swivelling and fixed windows with continuous concrete sill. Square-headed door openings with accordion folding steel double doors. Single-bay single-storey building to north having flat roof with oversailing eaves, roughcast rendered walls, concrete pilotis to front (west) elevation, full-width tripartite steel-framed windows with overlights to front elevation, steel-framed windows with overlights to west end of north and south elevations, and half-glazed steel door to south elevation. Multiple-bay single-storey building to west having flat roof with oversailing eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered walls, and square-headed openings with steel-framed windows and timber battened doors. Rectangular-plan weighbridge to site having cast-iron frame and plate with maker's marks in relief to frame, with concrete kerbs to east and west sides.

• Saint Stephen's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1950–1955 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached irregular-plan thirteen-bay hospital, built 1954. Comprising thirteen-bay three-storey front (south) block having single-bay five-storey tower to east, two-bay two-storey extension to west. Open flat-roofed entrance canopy to extension and flat-roofed glazed entrance porch to tower. Two-storey over basement wing to rear (north) elevation of tower and rear of front block, single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch to west end of front block, with single-storey wing to rear of west end of front block. Flat roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed openings with steel casement and pivoting windows and glazed steel double leaf doors with overlights to front elevation, with glazed timber double leaf doors with sidelights and overlights within. Glazed steel door with sidelights to porch to west. Full-width open-ended courtyard formed by multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to rear. Outbuildings with flat roofs, cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered walls, and square-headed openings with steel fittings.

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 5 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.