Land parcel 4831440

Area

14,023 m² (1.4 ha, 3.47 acres)

Buildings

9 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 3,422 m².

Zoning

S1 Education (Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation)) The objective
R2 Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 21 Dec 2023Refused

  Retention permission for development at Griffith College, Wellington Road, Cork. The development consists of the retention of an artificial surfaced sports area to the rear of Griffith College and all ancillary site development works. The proposed development is located within the curtilage of lands associated with the former St. Patrick's Hospital and Convent which is a Protected Structure (RPS No. PS787). A stone-built ventilation shaft (NIAH No. 20863042) associated with the Kent Station railway tunnel which is also a Protected Structure (RPS No. PS930) is located north of the proposed development.

  Retention · Cork City Council, 2342566

• 12 Sept 2019Conditional

  Permission... for change of use of former St. Vincent's Orphanage/St. Patricks Convent for educational use, at Wellington Road, Cork (Protected Structures-RPS No.PS787). The proposal will include; 1) Modifications to existing structure to include two new internal stairs. 2) A new ambulant staircase to be added to the rear. 3) Existing roof to be raised in places. 4) Alterations to the front elevation to include the alteration of two window opes to form new timber doors. 5) Minor modifications to internal floor plan. 6) Thirty number new roof- light window units. 7) New signage for Griffith College to be positioned in South Garden.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 1938695

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

• Orphanage/children's home, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached Gothic Revival multi-bay three-storey with dormer attic former orphanage, built c.1865, later in use as hospice, nursing home and convent, now disused. Symmetrical plan comprising three-bay three-storey canted central block with entrance to ground floor, four-bay three-storey flanking lateral wings and two-bay two-storey gable-fronted projecting end bays to east and west. Three-stage circular towers to east and west side elevations with conical roofs. Pitched slate roofs with crested terracotta ridge tiles, shouldered sandstone chimneystacks with limestone quoins having octagonal yellow clay pots, limestone finial to hipped canted roof, painted timber bargeboards to dormers and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked sandstone walls with dressed limestone corniced eaves course, platband to first floor forming continuous sill course to gabled breakfronts, quoins, corner buttresses to breakfronts and chamfered plinth course. Centre breakfront with pointed arch window openings to first floor in moulded limestone block-and-start surrounds with hood mouldings, splayed limestone sills. Paired square-headed window openings with inset trefoil arches surmounted by oculus window. Camber-headed openings to ground floor central section with limestone hood mouldings, dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds and splayed limestone sills. Paired square-headed window openings with leaded pointed arch overlights and central colonnettes. Square-headed window openings to second floor recessed bays in limestone block-and-start surrounds with chamfered reveals and jams and continuous sill course. Square-headed window openings to first floor in pointed arch limestone surrounds with hood mouldings, block-and-start effect and trefoil-headed paired leaded overlights. Incised trefoil to tympanum. Camber-headed window openings to ground floor under continuous hood moulding with block-and-start surrounds, chamfered jambs, splayed sills, trefoil-headed paired leaded overlights and paired fixed pane windows with central colonnettes. Square-headed window openings to circular towers having continuous limestone lintel course with chamfered reveals and louvered openings to second floor. Trefoil-headed openings to first floor and square-headed openings to ground floor with chamfered reveals in block-and-start surrounds with continuous splayed sills course and leaded lights. Replacement uPVC windows throughout. Pointed arch door opening to central breakfront in moulded limestone surround with engaged columns, replacement timber double door and accessed via set of limestone steps. Carved limestone aedicule with polished limestone columns supported on carved angels carrying gable-fronted tympanum with carved trefoil to apex, holding statue of St Vincent. Set back from road in grounds with former convent, nursing home and hospice, having snecked sandstone boundary walls.

• Church/chapel, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached cruciform-plan double-height chapel, built 1908-9, with four-bay elevation to nave and flat-roofed single-bay single-storey bays to east and west of front (south) elevation. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, dressed stone verges with gabled kneelers, ashlar limestone corbelled bell-cote to apex of north gable, carved stone crucifixes to east, west and chancel (south) gables, louvered ventilator with copper roof, profiled metal gutters and decorative hoppers. Snecked sandstone ashlar walls with ashlar limestone dressings, quoins, platbands and chamfered plinth band. Blind circular openings to front (south) gable apex and flanking chancel window. Pointed arch window openings to nave with dressed limestone chamfered surrounds, splayed limestone sills and painted Y-tracery small-pane timber windows. Pointed arch four-panel geometrical traceried chancel window with dressed limestone chamfered block-and-start surround, hood mould with block stops and limestone voussoirs over, stained glass leaded-lights. Pointed arch entrance door opening with ashlar limestone surround and timber vertically-sheeted double doors with decorative iron hinges. Entrance now contained within recent addition connecting east and west hospital buildings. Single-aisled interior with timber sheeted ceiling, painted plaster walling and timber balcony carried on A-trusses to north end with cast-iron balustrade holding organ.

• Gate lodge, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted two-bay single-storey with attic former gate lodge, built c.1880, with canted south and gabled north elevations, gabled porch to central bay of front (west) elevation and recent flat-roofed extension to rear (east). Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof, hipped to south elevation, with limestone gable ridge, crested clay ridge tiles, shouldered sandstone chimneystacks with limestone quoins having octagonal yellow clay pots, wrought-iron finial and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked red sandstone walls with ashlar limestone dressings and quoins and chamfered plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, leaded overlights, splayed sills and uPVC windows. Pointed arch door in gabled entrance porch with limestone hood moulding, cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, limestone steps and replacement timber door. Set back from line of road in grounds shared with former convent, nursing home and hospice. Ashlar sandstone boundary walls with cut-limestone coping surmounted by wrought-iron railings. Gateway to site comprising dressed limestone piers with gabled caps and decorative wrought iron gates.

• Hospital/infirmary, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached eleven-bay three-storey over basement hospital, dated 1870, with four-bay extension to east, built c.1980. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with red brick corbelled chimneystacks having yellow brick band and limestone coping and replacement profiled gutters on corbelled overhanging eaves. Coursed rubble sandstone walling with limestone plinth band, yellow brick dressings and platbands terminating in decorative sandstone mouldings at ground floor level. Smooth render to basement area. Camber-headed window openings with yellow brick surrounds, limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening in yellow brick surround with sandstone keystone bearing the date ‘1870’ and accessed via flight of limestone steps bounded by cast-iron handrails. Replacement timber panelled door under plain spoked fanlight. Located within with former convent, nursing home and hospice complex and accessed from the street. Rubble stone boundary wall with recent metal gates to quadrant walls and concrete piers.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.