Land parcel 2559313

Area

4,666 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres)

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 3,539 m².

Zoning

M3 Z4: Key Urban Villages/Urban Villages (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
O2 Z8: Georgian Conservation Areas (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 14 Nov 2025Application declared invalid

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development, which will take place on a cumulative site area of 0.0267 Ha, will consist of: internal alterations to existing staff changing rooms at basement level (73 sq m); and the associated repurposing of a portion of the basement car park (including the omission of 5 No. car parking spaces) to provide additional staff changing facilities (194 sq m), including showers and toilets, 1 No. general maintenance room, 1 No. ancillary office; and all associated site and development works.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB5680/25

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

• Merrion Hotel, house, 1760–1770 · National interest
  Description

  Corner-sited five-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1765, two northernmost bays to rear having projecting bow, and north elevation having recessed single-bay single-storey over basement addition with further storey to its rear part. Now in use as an hotel. Single-bay deep five-storey glazed link block continuing line of addition and connecting to large L-plan five-storey block further back in rear plot that wraps around to Baggotrath Lane. Rear elevation of main block projects slightly from line of buildings to south. Pitched slate roof to front, behind refaced brick parapet with granite coping, main roof to rear pitched to south and hipped to north, and rest of roof comprises three hipped roofs, with half-cone over east end of bow. Shouldered weather-slated chimneystack to north end of front roof and shouldered brick chimneystack to south end with clay pots, and further stacks to party wall with No. 23 to south. Lead rainwater goods to south end of front elevation and cast-iron to north elevation. Flemish bond brown brick walls to front elevation, refaced above top floor window head level, on granite plinth course over dressed limestone walls to basement; rendered walls to north and rear elevations. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals and painted granite sills, and having dressed limestone reveals to basement. Timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six pane to first floor, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Round-headed twenty-over-fifteen pane stairs window with spoked fanlight to north elevation, and addition having variety of timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed limestone doorcase to front entrance, with square-headed door opening having moulded limestone cornice, engaged Doric columns, open-bed pediment, peacock's-tail fanlight and eight-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite platform with four granite steps. Wrought-iron railings enclosing basement area, having decorative wrought-iron posts with cast-iron finials, on carved granite plinth. Posts flanking entrance have lamps. Entrance hall has flagged floor, deep timber skirting and square-headed doorway with pilasters, moulded cornice, scrolled consoles supporting open-bed pediment, and decorative peacock's-tail fanlight and double-leaf timber panelled door; stairs hall has Vitruvian scroll-work panels, plaster wall panels, ornate coved cornice, ceiling rose, open-string staircase with timber balusters and mahogany and brass handrail, round-headed stairs window with fluted Doric pilasters and moulded archivolt with scroll keystone; first floor front room has ornate swagged frieze and dentillated cornice, Rococo plasterwork ceiling, and ceiling rose; first floor rear room has deep timber cornice, timber chair rail, square-headed door opening with fluted Ionic columns, ornate over-door with open-topped dentillated pediment and six-panel timber door with egg-and-dart moulded surround and with pelican feeding its young above flanked by vegetal ornament, and having Rococo plasterwork ceiling; hallway has coved plasterwork cornice, wall panels with swag ornament and lugged moulded timber door surrounds to eight-panel timber doors.

• Merrion Hotel, house, 1750–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1760. Now in use as part of hotel. Pitched slate roof to front, behind brick parapet with granite coping, and having two hipped roofs to rear perpendicular to street, and with recent dormer window to middle of front roof slope. Long rendered chimneystack to north party wall, brick stack to party wall of front and rendered stack of party wall to rear, with clay pots. Lead rainwater goods to party walls. Flemish bond red brick walls to front elevation on granite plinth course over dressed limestone basement walling, and rendered walls to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, having rendered reveals and painted granite sills, with dressed limestone reveals to basement at front. Timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six pane to first floor, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Front elevation has decorative wrought-iron balconettes to first floor. Front entrance has round-headed limestone doorcase with square-headed door opening, moulded cornice, channelled Doric pilasters, moulded archivolt, ornate peacock's-tail fanlight and six-panel timber door with brass furniture. Sandstone platform with remnant cast-iron boot-scrape, and four granite steps. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on moulded granite plinth. Entrance hall has panelled timber pilasters flanking inside of front door, deep ornate dentillated cornice, and timber panelling below dado rail; stairs hall has open-string staircase with timber balusters and mahogany and brass handrail; vaulted cellar with rubble limestone walls and brick vaulting.

• Merrion Hotel, house, 1755–1765 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached five-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1760, altered 1904 and 1915 and rear now having recent circulation tower at south end shared with neighbouring building. Now in use as part of hotel. Pitched slate roof to front with five recent dormer windows, behind brick parapet with granite coping; rear has pitched roof in parallel to northern bays and continuing to neighbouring property, and rest of roof comprises three variously-sized pitched roofs perpendicular to street and having hipped ends to two larger roofs. Yellow brick chimneystacks with clay pots, comprising long stack to party wall to south, stack to party wall to north and small stack to rear part. Lead rainwater goods to party walls. Flemish bond brown brick walls to front elevation on granite plinth course over dressed limestone basement walling. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with raised rendered reveals and painted granite sills, and having dressed limestone reveals to basement. Timber sliding sash windows, six-over-three pane to second floor, three-over-three pane to top floor, and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Round-headed limestone doorcase to front entrance, with square-headed door opening, moulded limestone cornice, engaged Doric columns supporting open-bed pediment, petal fanlight and timber panelled double-leaf door. Granite platform with six bull's-nose granite steps. Wrought-iron railings enclosing basement area with decorative cast-iron posts on moulded granite plinth. Stairs hall has flagged floor, timber dado rail, open-string cantilevered stone staircase with decorative wrought-iron balusters and mahogany handrail, ornate marble chimneypiece to south wall, and neo-Classical plaster ceiling; ground floor rear room has plaster panels and square-headed door openings with moulded timber architraves and shallow plaster cornice.

• Merrion Hotel, house, 1750–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1760, having recent four-storey tower to north end of rear shared with neighbouring building. Now in use as hotel and restaurant. House is last in row and building to south projects forward substantially. Pitched slate roof to front, behind rebuilt brick parapet with granite coping, and two pitched roofs to rear perpendicular to street and having hips to east end. Brick chimneystacks with clay pots, comprising long stack to party wall to north and two further stacks to party wall to south. Lead rainwater goods to north end. Flemish bond brown brick walls to front elevation on granite plinth course over dressed limestone basement walling; rear elevation is rendered. Camber-arch window openings to basement with dressed limestone reveals, and square-headed elsewhere, diminishing in height to upper floors, with raised rendered reveals and painted granite sills. Timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Round-headed limestone doorcase, with square-headed door opening having moulded limestone cornice, channelled Doric pilasters, open-bed pediment, batwing fanlight, and double-leaf eight-panel timber door. Granite platform with five bull's-nose granite steps. Basement area enclosed by cast-iron railings with decorative finials and feet on moulded granite plinth, curving southwards. Casey notes that its interior has good staircase, joinery and plasterwork cornices of 1750s.

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.

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.