Land parcel 2590473

Area

404 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 2,191 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

• 17 May 2023Refuse permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Modifications to the existing railing at 18 Parnell Square North, Dublin 1 D01 T3V8 to include: Provision of new wrought iron access gate to match existing railings at the base of the entrance stairway to the protected structure containing the Dublin Writer's Museum.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3778/23

• 20 Apr 2023Application declared inva

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: permission is sought for modifications to the existing railing to include provision of new wrought iron access gate to match existing railings at the base of the entrance stairway to the protected structure containing the Dublin Writer's Museum.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3597/23

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, 1765–1770 · National interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1768. Now in use as museum. M-profile slate roof behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to west. Large rendered chimneystack to east party wall, shared with adjoining house No. 18, almost spanning entire gable with clay pots. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond on moulded granite plinth course over rendered basement walls. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six pane to ground and first floors, six-over-six pane to second floor and three-over-three pane to top floor. Decorative wrought-iron balconettes to first floor and iron grilles to basement windows. Round-headed door opening with painted pedimented stone Ionic doorcase. Original timber door with eight raised-and-fielded panels having architrave surround and inset leaded cobweb fanlight. Door opening flanked by engaged Ionic columns on raised plinth blocks supporting pulvinated entablature blocks to open pediment with responding partial pilasters. Door opens onto stone flagged platform and five granite steps enclosed by wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinth walls and terminated by pair of decorative iron piers, returning to enclose basement area. Interior has largely painted plaster walls and ceilings, original timber panelled doors, architraves, skirting and panelled window linings and boarded timber floors. Original black and white stone flagged entrance hall having Gothic Revival plaster cornice. Original dog-leg open-string timber stair with turned balusters and moulded handrail. Deep Rococco cornice to first floor rooms and decorative plaster ceilings.

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.

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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.