Land parcel 5187979

Area

5,309 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres)

Buildings

8 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 2,352 m².

Zoning

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

• 4 May 2017Conditional

  permission is sought for the conversion of existing attic space to a study and toilet, to include a dormer window and velux roof lights to the terrace of dwelling houses

  Permission · Cork City Council, 1737410

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

• Ambassador Hotel, hospital/infirmary, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nineteen-bay three-storey polychrome red brick former hospital, built 1881, with three-bay full-height central entrance breakfront to front (south) elevation having dormer attic, flanked by five bay blocks with wrought-iron verandahs to first and second floors, having three-bay breakfront terminating sections, with two-storey bow windows at ground and first floors. Later multiple-bay, two-storey with dormer attic addition to rear (north). Now in use as a hotel. Pitched slate roof to east and west wings, hipped to breakfronts, with red brick and rendered chimneystacks, wrought-iron finials to ridge apexes, dressed limestone caps supporting dressed limestone fractables with red brick embellishments to east and west and replacement profiled rainwater goods on overhanging corbelled eaves. Gable-fronted dormer windows to central breakfront attic with engaged red brick pilasters. Central dormer window with dressed limestone lintel under copper pyramidal roof with wrought-iron finial. Red brick walls laid in Flemish Bond with dog’s tooth brick to eaves course, polychromatic brick platbands consisting of alternating yellow and vitrified brick courses, yellow brick platbands to ground and first floor lintel courses, limestone dressings and dressed limestone continuous sill courses at each floor. Square-headed window openings to second floor with dressed limestone corbelled lintels and uPVC windows. Camber-headed window openings to first and ground floors under decorative yellow brick voussoirs. Bipartite round-headed window openings to first floor at central breakfront with round-headed dressed limestone tympanum having roundel springing from central colonnettes with floriate caps under alternating red and yellow brick voussoirs with moulded limestone surround on corniced limestone platband at lintel level. Bipartite round-headed window openings to ground floor central breakfront with dressed limestone arches springing from central colonnettes with floriate caps, moulded brick chamfered reveals, dressed limestone plinth blocks and uPVC windows. Camber-headed door opening under timber canopy supported on cast-iron columns having wrought-iron embellishments with dressed limestone block-and-start surround having engaged columns with floriate caps and square-headed timber-and-glazed door under tripartite leaded stained glass overlight, leaded stained glass sidelights over timber risers approached via set of limestone steps. Set on elevated site overlooking terraced gardens to fore, tarmac surface car park to east and former gate lodge to south-west. Bounded by red brick wall with limestone copings surmounted by cast-iron railings and cast-iron entrance gates to square-profile limestone gate piers with pyramidal caps.

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.

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.