Land parcel 5095917

Area

656 m²

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,910 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

• 20 Apr 2021Refuse permission

  Planning permission for the demolition of two-storey industrial unit and construction of 13 unit (2no. studio, 10 no. one-bed, 1no. two-bed), 5 storey including set back penthouse, apartment building (c.888sqm) with 4th floor terraces facing Charles Lane and terraces / balconies to all levels to rear and incorporating the existing right-of-way vehicular access to No 25/26 Mountjoy Square (in separate curtilages), waste store, bicycle parking and underground rainwater attenuation tank in back garden.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2623/21

• 11 May 2020Grant permission

  Planning permission for the demolition of an existing two-storey industrial unit and the construction of a 13-unit (2 no. studio, 9 no. 1-bed and 2 no. two-bed, 5-storey, including set back penthouse apartment building (910sqm) with 4th floor balconies facing Charles Lane and balconies/terraces to all levels except ground level to rear and incorporating the existing right of way vehicular access to the rear of No25/26 Mountjoy Square (in separate curtilage(s)), waste store, bicycle parking and underground water attenuation tank in back garden.

  Permission, 13 homes · Dublin City Council, 2689/20

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, 1795–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay four-storey house over exposed basement, built, c.1796, with six-bay two-storey over basement brick-walled rear return. Built as one of three houses to centre of terrace lining east side of Mountjoy Square. Now in commercial use. Double-pile artificial slate roof, pitched to front pile with pair of hipped roofs set perpendicular to rear. Stepped rendered brick chimneystacks with clay pots to both party walls. Roof hidden behind parapet wall with coved granite coping. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with original tuck pointing to moulded granite plinth course above granite ashlar basement walls. Yellow brick walling to rear elevation. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows throughout, six-over-six pane to lower floors and three-over-three pane to top floor. Curved cast-iron balconettes to the first floor with wrought-iron grilles to basement windows. Round-headed stair light to rear elevation with replacement timber sliding sash nine-over-six pane window, spoked to upper sash, six-over-six pane to lower floors, and three-over-three pane to top floor. Gauged brick round-arched door opening with tripartite Portland stone doorcase. Replacement hardwood panelled door flanked by engaged Ionic columns on plinth bases, plain sidelights and responding quarter-engaged pilasters supporting stepped fluted and dentillated lintel cornice embellished with paterae and original leaded cobweb fanlight with fluted surround. Door opens onto granite platform with two cast-iron bootscrapers and three granite steps bridging basement. Platform and basement area enclosed by original wrought-iron railings and cast-iron corner posts on moulded granite plinth wall. Matching iron gate gives basement access via steel steps. Three cast-iron coal-hole covers set in granite kerbstones. Return has hipped slate roof, red brick walls, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with iron grilles and lean-to ground floor canopy, and margined clerestorey and blind first floor windows to western half. Return abutted by recent flat-roofed three-storey rendered structure. Interior of house has decorative frieze to hall and elaborate interior to doorway comprising husk and other ornamental devices.

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_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.

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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.