Land parcel 5216044
Registered freehold, where the statutory boundaries draw no townland, as in the centres of Dublin, Cork and Galway
Parcel 5216044
- Area
- 267 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 365 m².
- Zoning
- M3 Z4: Key Urban Villages/Urban Villages (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
- Townland
- —
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- Mater Hospital Patient Services, General Services and Project Office, bank/financial institution, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Corner-sited end-of-terrace three-storey Italiante former bank, built 1898, with two-bay elevation facing east onto Dorset Street Upper, four-bay two-storey north elevation fronting onto Saint Joseph’s Place, canted corner entrance bay, and with two-storey rendered extension to rear. Designed by William Byrne. Now in office use by Mater Hospital. Hipped slate roof hidden behind parapet wall several rendered profiled chimneystacks. Two cast-iron hoppers and downpipes to north elevation. Smooth granite ashlar walling to upper floors below deep moulded cornice and lead-lined blocking course. Each elevation above ground floor framed by giant order Doric pilasters on plinth blocks corresponding to channel-rusticated Doric pilasters to ground floor. Channel-rusticated limestone ashlar walls to ground floor on moulded plinth course and surmounted by continuous moulded cornice at first floor sill level. Segmental-headed window openings to upper floors on continuous moulded sill courses with raised surrounds and original two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed window openings to ground floor set within voussoired segmental-headed panels having fixed-pane timber display windows, moulded sills spanning arched panel and flanked by rusticated pilasters. Corner bay abutted by pilastered and balustraded entrance porch, detailed as per ground floor. Round-headed door opening with replacement double-leaf timber panelled door with plain glazed, set within voussoired round-headed recess and flanked by channel-rusticated pilasters to plain frieze and balustraded parapet forming small balcony to first floor. Segmental-headed door opening to east elevation set within voussoired recess with replacement double-leaf timber panelled door and with single granite step to street. Extension abutting west elevation has segmental-headed window openings, rendered architrave surrounds and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, smooth cement rendered walls with deep moulded cornice above ground floor and timber casement windows with moulded masonry sills to ground floor.The entrance lobby to the former bank hall has a set of ornate hardwood double doors with decorative architrave surround, glazed upper panels and brass hardware. The former bank hall has downstand beams with ornate plaster cornices within the recessed ceiling areas.
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 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.