Land parcel 5012753

Area

281 m²

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 661 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

• 18 Oct 2024Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE : PERMISSION is sought by the Embassy of France in Ireland for refurbishment and upgrading works to existing windows and doors to four storey over basement mid terrace building at No. 66 Merrion Square, D02 WY11 Dublin 2 (protected structure reference 5164 on the record of protected structures). Proposed works to allow for like-for-like repairs to existing non- . original single glazed timber windows frames and sashes including putty, paintwork and draft sealing. 20no. one-over-one timber sash windows to front and rear of the building to be upgraded to new slim profile double glazed units. Works to include internal secondary glazing to all other windows in addition to proposed refurbishment works.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4355/24

• 9 Oct 2024Application declared inva

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE : PERMISSION for refurbishment and upgrading works to existing windows and doors to four storey over basement mid terrace building at No. 66 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 (protected structure reference 5164 on the record of protected structures. Proposed works to allow for like-for like repairs to existing non-original single glazed timber windows frames and sashes including putty, paintwork and draft sealing. 20 no. one over one timber sash windows to front and rear of the building to be upgraded to new slim profile double glazed units, works to include internal secondary glazing to all other windows in addition to proposed refurbishment works.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4329/24

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, 1785–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1790 apparently as one in terrace of seventeen, having bow to two eastern bays of rear elevation, and two-storey return to third bay. Now in use as offices and school. Pitched slate roof to front, hipped to west end, behind Flemish bond brown brick parapet with granite coping, with two hipped roofs to rear perpendicular to street, larger over bow. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks to east end with clay pots. Concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond brown brick walls with moulded granite plinth over painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings with painted rendered reveals, soldier arches and painted granite sills, exposed granite block-and-start surrounds and wrought-iron grilles to basement, and round-headed stairs window to rear elevation. Timber sliding sash windows, front elevation having three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere, and rear elevation having tripartite windows with three-over-three pane to top floor, nine-over-six pane to ground floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere, including to return. Decorative wrought-iron balconettes to first floor front and rear, and cast-iron guard-rails to top two floors of front and rear. Round-headed principal doorway with paired Ionic columns flanking decorative leaded geometrically glazed sidelights, stepped fluted frieze and cornice, decorative radial leaded fanlight, panelled cavetto-moulded architrave and six-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite platform with cast-iron boot-scrapes and four bull-nosed granite steps. Wrought-iron railings enclosing basement area with decorative cast-iron posts on moulded granite plinth. Replacement timber panelled door providing direct access to basement. Casey (2005) notes that interior retains good ceilings. carparking to rear, with concrete block wall to Fitzwilliam Lane.

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.