Land parcel 5224987

Area

246 m²

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 266 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

• 20 Dec 2021Grant permission

  The development will consist of the installation of a new AHU, ductwork, and louvre screen to the rooftop to 10 Molesworth Street, to include all ancillary works and services.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB5216/21

• 14 Dec 2021Application declared inva

  The development will consist of the installation of a new AHU, ductwork, and louvre screen to the rooftop to 10 Molesworth Street, to include all ancillary works and services.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB5197/21

• 8 May 2019Grant permission

  Permission to erect 3 no. antenna, 2 no. microwave dishes together with associated equipment upon the rooftop of The Molesworth Building, 10-11 Molesworth St. (formerly 10-14 Molesworth St.) The Frederick Buildings, South Frederick St. and Nos. 35-37 Setanta Place, Dublin 2.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2934/19

• 8 Apr 2019Application declared inva

  Permission to erect 3 no. antenna and 2 no. microwave dishes together with associated equipment upon the rooftop.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2702/19

• 19 Feb 2019Application declared inva

  Permission to erect 3 no. antenna, 2 no. microwave dishes together with associated equipment upon the rooftop of The Molesworth Building, 10-11 Molesworth St. (formerly 10-14 Molesworth St, The Frederick Buildings) South Frederick St. and Nos. 35-37 Setanta Place, Dublin 2.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2302/19

• 24 Jan 2019Grant permission

  Planning permission for development at The Molesworth Building, 10-11 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2. The development will consist of the erection of signage on the external elevations of the building comprising: individually mounted back halo illuminated steel letters over the building entrance facing Molesworth Street; individually mounted steel letters and company sign within a steel frame (1 metre square) at ground floor on the South Frederick Street elevation; and individually mounted steel letters and company sign within a steel frame (0.8 metres square) at ground floor on the building recess adjacent to the building entrance facing South Frederick Street.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2112/19

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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 201 recorded monuments.

• DU018-020238 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Craig (1969, 324) mentions a building at No. 35 Molesworth Street. This building dates to post-AD 1700.

• DU018-020241 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Craig (1969, 107-8) mentions a Georgian building which dates from c. 1725.

• DU018-020257 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Craig (1969, 324) mentions a house at No. 12 Molesworth Street which dates from c. 1735.

• DU018-020258 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Craig (1969, 324) mentions a dwelling at No. 15 Molesworth Street that dates from c. 1740.

• DU018-020259 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Craig (1969, 324) mentions a house at No. 16 Molesworth Street which date from c. 1740.

• DU018-020260 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Craig (1969, 108, 324) mentions a house at No. 20 Molesworth Street.

• DU018-020261 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Craig (1969, 324) mentions a house at No. 21 Molesworth Street.

• DU018-020262 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Craig (1969, 108, 324) describesa dwelling at No. 33 Molesworth Street which dates c. 1740.

• DU018-020327 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Mansion House was built in 1710.

• DU018-020413 Church
  Description

  St. Anne's Church, Dawson Street is post-1700 AD.

And 191 more.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1735–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay four-storey gable-fronted former house over basement, built 1740 as pair with No. 16 and remodelled c. 1840, having two window openings to top floor, gabled rear elevation with three-storey flat-roof return. Now also in office use. Natural slate roof on cruciform plan, rendered triangular gable with curved sides to front elevation having moulded coping, applied lettering '1755' over projecting rendered frieze and moulded cornice; large shared shouldered rendered chimneystack to east party wall with clay octagonal pots, and parapet gutters, replacement hoppers and downpipes shared with No. 16. Painted rendered walling to upper floors, rusticated render to ground floor with painted plinth and having moulded platband above, and with rendered walling to basement and rear elevation. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with moulded architraves, painted moulded masonry sills and exposed sash boxes. Timber sliding sash windows, four-over-four pane to ground and first floors with horns and partially exposed boxes, six-over-six pane to basement (with replacement metal bars) and top two floors, and having tripartite eight-over-eight pane to rear. Square-headed door opening with moulded granite architrave, flanking panelled pilasters with scrolled console brackets supporting dentillated segmental-headed pediment, plain overlight, and replacement eleven-panel timber door with brass furniture. Door opens onto granite platform bridging basement. Basement area enclosed by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron posts on moulded granite plinth, with decorative cast-iron posts flanking entrance supporting round-headed iron arch with lamp fixed to centre over replacement metal gate. Casey notes wainscoted interiors, window seats and good cornices. Former abutting building to west in process of demolition (July 2016).

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.