Land parcel 4814845

Area

136 m²

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 104 m².

Zoning

R2 Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (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

• 23 May 2025Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The Board of Management of Loreto College intend to apply for permission for development at the site of Loreto College, 53-55 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 02, D02 XE79 (includes Protected Structures). The proposed development relates solely to the Sports Hall located to the south-east of the overall landholding, which is within the curtilage of the Protected Structure. No works are proposed to any designated protected structures. The proposed development amends a permitted development as granted under DCC Reg. Ref.3171/24. The development will principally consist of minor changes including the removal of part of the previously granted extension, specifically the 82.6 sqm lateral extension along the south-western elevation at ground floor level; reconfiguration of the internal layout; general elevational changes; removal of an existing shed; relocation of permitted external plant; and all associated site works above and below ground.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB2139/25

• 17 Apr 2025Application declared invalid

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The Board of Management of Loreto College intend to apply for permission for development at the site of Loreto College, 53-55 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 02, D02 XE79 (includes Protected Structures). The proposed development relates solely to the Sports Hall located to the south-east of the overall landholding, which is within the curtilage of the Protected Structure. No works are proposed to any designated protected structures. The proposed development amends a permitted development as granted under DCC Reg. Ref.3171/24. The development will principally consist of minor changes including the removal of part of the previously granted extension, specifically the 82.6 sqm lateral extension along the south-western elevation at ground floor level; reconfiguration of the internal layout; general elevational changes; removal of an existing shed; relocation of permitted external plant; and all associated site works above and below ground.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB1875/25

• 9 Feb 2024Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: the proposed development relates solely to the sports hall located to the south-east of the overall landholding, which is within the curtilage of the protected structures. No works are proposed to any designated protected structures. The development will principally consist of a 168.8 sq m extension to the building comprising a lateral extension 82.6 sq m along the south western elevation at ground floor level and a vertical extension of 86.2 sq m along the north western elevation at first floor level (no change to maximum height of the building); reconfiguration of the internal layout; general elevational changes; replacement of roof and rooflights; plant including new heat pumps on the north-eastern elevation of the building and all associated site works above and below ground.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3171/24

• 25 Jan 2024Application declared inva

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: the Board of Management of Loretto college intend to apply for permission for development at Loreto College, No's 53-55 St. Stephens Green, Dublin 2, D02 XE79 (includes Protected Structures). The proposed development relates solely to the sports hall located to the south-east of the overall landholding , which is within the curtilage of the Protected Structures. No works are proposed to any designated Protected Structures. The development will principle consist of a 168.8sq m extension to the building, comprising a lateral extension of 82.6sq m along the south-western elevation at ground floor level and a vertical extension of 86.2sq m along the north-western elevation at first for level (no change to maximum height of the building); reconfiguration of the internal layout; general elevation changes; replacement of roof and rooflights and all associated site works above and below ground.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3097/24

• 7 Jun 2022Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Permission is sought for the continuation of office use of the basement level of 4 Ely Place Upper.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4162/22

• 18 Oct 2019Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Permission for the restoration and refurbishment of the front facades of Loreto College, No's 53, 54 and 55 St. Stephens Green, Dublin 2 all of which are Protected Structures. The works will consist of the following; (1) No. 53 St. Stephens Green- existing cementitious pointing to be carefully raked out of brickwork and stonework, careful steam cleaning and lime mortar repointing of the brickwork and parapet stonework to front façade and low wall to front railings, careful removal and reinstatement of front steps to main entrance, refurbishment of sash windows where required, repainting of plastered walls and all wrought iron railings, (2) No. 54 St. Stephens Green - existing cementitious pointing to be carefully raked out of brickwork and stonework, careful steam cleaning and lime mortar repointing of the brickwork and stonework to front façade and low wall to front railings, refurbishment of sash windows where required, refurbishment of feature surrounds to 6no. windows located at ground and first floor levels, repainting of plastered walls and all wrought iron railings, (3) No. 55 St. Stephens Green - careful steam cleaning of brickwork and stonework to front façade and low wall to front railings, refurbishment of sash windows where required, repainting of plastered walls and all wrought iron railings at Loreto College, No's 53, 54, and 55 St. Stephens Green, Dublin 2. No's 53, 54, and 55 St. Stephens Green, Dublin 2 are listed on the Dublin City Council Record of Protected Structures - Ref's 7786, 7787 and 7788 respectively.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4253/19

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

• House, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay four-storey former townhouse over basement with integral carriage-arch, dated 1828, built as a part of a terrace of five (50930001-5). Full-height L-plan return to rear (east) elevation. Now in commercial use as offices. Pitched roof (hipped to north) to central and southern bays, with narrow return extending to rear (east); M-profiled pitched roof to north bay, hipped to south. Shouldered chimneystacks, having buff brick with red clay pots to south gable, rendered with lipped red clay pots to north party wall. Parapet gutters, replacement metal hopper and downpipe breaking through to principal (west) elevation. Buff brick laid in Flemish bond to walls, with rusticated granite quoins to south corner (some painted replacements to ground floor) and channel-rusticated painted and rendered basement walls with granite plinth course over. Square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills, rendered reveals, brick voussoirs and six-over-six timber sliding sash windows with horns; three-over-three to third floor and ten-over-ten to basement with cast-iron grilles. Decorative (possibly mild-steel replacement) balconettes affixed to sills at first floor. Round-headed door opening to central bay with moulded sandstone doorcase comprising moulded linings, prostyle Ionic columns on plinths, with egg-and-dart moulding to capitals, rising to moulded cornice over panelled frieze with decorative iron fanlight and a raised-and-field timber panelled door with replacement brass furniture. Granite entrance platform, with cast-iron boot scraper, four nosed steps to street flanked by cast-iron railings with arrow finials on painted masonry plinth enclosing basement well to south. Segmental-headed integral carriage-arch to north bay with brick voussoirs and replacement cast-iron gates. Square-headed plainly detailed door opening beneath entrance platform having a replacement timber door. Basement-well accessed by recent steel steps from street level. Street fronted, terminating a terrace on the eastern side of Ely Place Upper.

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.

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.