Land parcel 2590208

Area

655 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 3,505 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

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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, 1765–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay four-storey house over concealed basement, built c.1768. Pitched artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles behind parapet wall with granite coping and shared cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to east. Two rendered yellow brick chimneystacks to east party wall, rendered stack rising from west gable, all having clay pots. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with granite cornice forming continuous sill course to attic level. Granite plat band above coursed rusticated arcaded granite ashlar walling to ground floor on advanced granite plinth wall covering basement. Smooth cement rendered walls to west gable. Square-headed window openings with architrave surrounds and painted granite sills to upper floors. Round-headed window openings to ground floor set in recessed rendered panels, voussoired to outer arch, and set on moulded granite sills. Replacement timber sliding sash windows throughout, six-over-six pane nineteenth-century frames to ground floor, one-over-one pane to first floor and top floor, and two-over-two pane to second floor. Decorative iron balcony spanning first floor and extended across neighbouring house to east, No. 20. Round-headed door opening with voussoired head housing replacement double-leaf hardwood panelled door and plain fanlight. Doorway asymmetrically placed and opening onto granite platform and five granite steps, enclosed to west by east quadrant wall to Charlemont House and rusticated limestone ashlar pier. Rear elevations to both Nos. 20 and 21 now abutted by recent extension to Hugh Lane Gallery, designed by Gilroy McMahon Architects c.2005. Basement plinth wall abutted by recent sculpture by Redmond Herrity commemorating Miami Showband. Interior piano noble contains nineteenth-century plaster over-doors after Elgin Marbles and fine mahogany doors with chunky rope mouldings.

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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3206 (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.

Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.

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.