Land parcel 5430312

Area

391 m²

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 549 m².

Zoning

O2 Z8: Georgian Conservation Areas (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
R2 Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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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

• House, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace single-bay four-storey former townhouse over basement, built 1824, having four-bay elevation (east) fronting onto Fitzwilliam Place, and abutted by full-height single-bay return to south. Two-storey hip-roofed entrance bay over basement and flat-roofed single-storey return over basement, to east elevation. Hipped slate roof concealed behind ashlar granite parapet with moulded cornice and granite coping; red brick parapet to south return with granite coping. Brick chimneystacks to east with clay pots; parapet gutters and cast-iron rainwater goods; replacement rainwater goods to rear (south). Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond, brown brick to east and south elevations, over granite plinth course with rusticated granite quoins to north-east and south-east corners of main building, ashlar limestone walling to basement. Rendered walls to eastern entrance block over granite plinth with continuous ashlar granite sill course to first floor and panelled ashlar granite strips to corners. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, granite sills and rendered reveals; ashlar limestone reveals to basement with granite plinth course to lintel level and cast-iron bars affixed to reveals. Bipartite openings to principal (north) elevation with plain consoles and panelled architrave over panelled pilasters. Segmental-headed opening to second floor of south elevation with two four-light oculi on upper floors to east-side and tripartite window to first floor having metal bars affixed. Round-headed window openings to north-cheek of south-east return, basement window having limestone voussoirs and decorative cast-iron guard affixed over plain glass window. Generally cast-iron balconettes to first floor windows of north elevation, some iron guard-rails to windows of upper floors. Largely round-headed window openings to eastern abutment, with plain rendered reveals, paired opening to east elevation having a panelled mullion and plain consoles over; recessed segmental-headed opening to ground floor. Largely multi-paned timber sliding sashes without horns; north elevation contains one-over-one with ogee horns to ground floor, multi-paned vertically arranged panes on first and second floor, two-over-two on third floor. Largely six-over-six to east elevation with three-over-three to third floor; variety of multi-paned sashes to south elevation; ten-over-fifteen to north and east basement level. Vertically arranged two-over-two sashes to east entrance block with recent plain glass window to ground floor. Number of windows bricked up to northern bays of east elevation. Square-headed door opening to north elevation of eastern entrance block, having moulded architrave flanked by scrolled console brackets on panelled pilasters supporting moulded cornice and panelled frieze painted ’18 FITZWILLIAM SQ’, over eleven-panelled timber door. Granite entrance platform, with cast-iron boot scraper, approached by five granite steps. Cast-iron railings with decorative posts, mounted on granite plinth, enclosing basement wells to either side of east entrance block and wrapping round to north elevation. Abutted by similar terraces to west and brown brick boundary wall to south.

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.