Land parcel 2848140

Area

1,652 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,247 m².

Zoning

M2 Z5: City Centre (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 22 Aug 2019Refuse permission

  The proposed development consists of amendments to parent permission PA.Reg. Ref. 3996/18. The amendments include: The provision of an additional floor resulting in an increase from the permitted 4-storey front block on Amiens Street with 5th and 6th setback storeys to 5-storey with 6th and 7th setback storeys. This results in an additional 17 bedrooms or 584 sqm to the permitted hotel development. Parapet height on Amiens Street will increase from 17.535 to 20.612m. Increased height of ground floor by 77mm resulting in a maximum overall height of 27.714m.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3840/19

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

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

• Post office, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey former railway parcels office over raised basement, built 1892, having Dutch-gable fronted two-storey over half-basement return to rear and extension to north of rear. Pitched slate roof to main block with terracotta ridge tiles, mixed replacement and cast-iron rainwater goods and red brick chimneystacks having clay pots to sides, hidden behind shaped red brick parapet wall with moulded limestone coping and red brick engaged pilasters having limestone ball finials. Pitched slate roof to return with clerestory pitched addition to ridge housing fixed pane square-headed rooflights, exposed timber eaves brackets and cast-iron railings to sides. Red brick chimneystack abutting north elevation, having moulded limestone capital and shaped octagonal shaft with limestone cornice and limestone and red brick pot to top. Raised parapet walls having moulded limestone copings and shaped gables with limestone cornices to front (west) and rear (east) elevations, broken apex and moulded limestone finial to front. Cornices to sides of gables and chimneystacks. Moulded limestone cornices; to base of parapet wall, forming first floor lintel and sill course, over ground floor, and forming ground floor sill course. Red brick plinth course to side elevations of rear return. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond having engaged red brick pilasters dividing bays to front and side elevations of façade, red brick plinth course with limestone capping. Gauged brick square-headed window openings to main building, having uPVC windows. Gauged brick segmental-headed window openings to sides and rear of rear return with limestone sills and steel-framed windows. Oculus to rear having moulded limestone architrave surround and keystones, timber framed window with central louvered vent. Round-headed doorway to front comprising square-headed door opening having single-leaf timber panelled door and side panels, moulded lintel entablature forming base for spoked fanlight with moulded limestone surround and keystone. Door opens onto limestone step and platform bridging basement having five limestone steps to pavement. Square-headed door opening to south elevation with moulded limestone shouldered architrave surround, round-headed panel having moulded cornice surround over, and timber panelled door. Square-headed door opening to rear of south elevation with steel door and cast-iron three-quarter-engaged bollards. Shaped red brick plinth wall having moulded limestone coping, steel railing and flush limestone plinth course enclose steps and basement area to front.

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3233 (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.