Land parcel 5170830

Area

568 m²

Buildings

6 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,678 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

• 21 Nov 2022Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of general upgrade and repair work to the building as follows: 1. Internal fire upgrade works to include fire stopping, upgrading doors and provision of additional internal doors, 2. Enlarge existing window on north elevation facing into rear courtyard to form new fire escape door, 3. Repair of external fabric to include roofs, repointing work, repair & some replacement of windows and roof lights, 4. Revised layouts and alterations to some internal spaces at ground and first floor levels, to include mechanical ventilation, 5. Additional toilets at ground and second floor levels, 6. Two new nameplates and letter boxes to front entrance gates, 7. Services upgrade work to include installation of new mechanical plant area of 70m2 to rear courtyard, solar PV panels to flat roofs, total area 113m2, mechanical ventilation and associated ductwork, rewiring, replacement of redundant fittings, emergency lighting and fire alarm and associated builder's work, 8. Remove existing stone infill and create new timber entrance door at Foster Place portico, 9. New finishing kitchen at ground floor level, 10. Upgrade existing lift off East Hall to provide access from ground floor to basement, 11. Other minor reordering works, 12. Redecoration. The building is a Protected Structure.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 5262/22

• 25 Sept 2020Grant retention permissio

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Planning permission for the retention of two external banners for a further temporary period up to 31st December 2023 at the House of Lords entrance portico (Westmoreland Street entrance), Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin, D02 VR66 (Bank of Ireland is a Protected Structure). The banners are to identify the exhibition "Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again" in the public Cultural and Heritage Centre in the Bank of Ireland and were previously granted temporary permission in accordance with Dublin City Council planning Reg. Ref. 3432/18. The banners measure 4m high and 2m wide and are suspended between two pairs of columns at the portico, facing toward College Street. The banners are positioned approximately 5.25m clear above ground level and supported off stainless steel (with neoprane protective cushioning) non-invasive fixings on the stone columns at top and bottom.

  Retention permission · Dublin City Council, 3453/20

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

• The Wax Museum, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey former bank guard house, built 1808-11, carriage arch infilled and ground floor windows opened 1929. Now in use as museum. Pitched slate roof, hipped to west, hidden behind Portland stone balustrade and parapet with dentillated granite eaves course. Ashlar granite walls having carved granite string course, over rusticated granite and raised granite plinth course to ground floor. Central breakfront of tooled Portland stone comprising Portland stone pilasters, archivolt and keystone with double-height Ionic columns supporting Portland stone entablature having dentillated cornice with panel and carved trophy of arms. Square-headed window openings having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, granite sills, recessed reveals and rusticated voussoirs to ground floor and continuous granite sill course, granite architraves, pulvinated friezes and pediments, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to openings to first floor. Round-headed window opening to centre with coved Portland stone surround, balustrade having urns and timber sliding sash window over square-headed door opening with Portland stone architrave, carved brackets having fluted cornice, oak-leaf garland to panel over architrave, double-leaf timber panelled door having overlight and cast-iron screen. Granite paving and stone setts to front. Located at north end of Foster Place.

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3206 (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.