Land parcel 5456031

Area

512 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 293 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

• 22 May 2020Grant permission

  Permission for development at No. 62 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2 - A Protected Structure, RPS Ref: 2857. The development will consist of the following: Repair, consolidation and re-pointing of the brickwork to the front facade (south elevation) which faces Fitzwilliam Square. Pointing will be Irish tuck pointing, using natural hydraulic lime mortars carried out by conservation specialists. No other works are proposed.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2741/20

• 7 Oct 2019Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of: Change of use from educational use to office use throughout. Permission is also sought for - upgrading fire and acoustic performance of existing suspended timber floors; Provision of new disabled external platform lift to rear; modification of existing bathrooms to lower ground floor; reinstatement of opening between front and rear reception rooms to the upper ground floor level and installation of new double doors and entablature; minor modifications to internal walls and openings including removal of modern partitions and doors; replacement of existing fire door in rear sash window to the first floor with traditional inward opening double doors and reinstatement of traditional cast iron balcony externally; and all ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4154/19

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

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1820, with two-stage two-storey brick return to north. Now in use as offices. M-profile slate roof set behind parapet wall with moulded granite coping and frieze. Shouldered rendered chimneystacks with lipped clay pots to east party wall. Parapet gutters and uPVC downpipes to rear. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with cement pointing. Moulded granite plinth course over rendered basement wall. Gauged brick square-headed window openings with granite sills and timber sash windows; original eight-over-eight pane to basement with iron grille and granite surround, twentieth-century replacement six-over-six pane sash windows to remainder, having ogee horns (three-over-three to third floor). Round-headed window opening to rear west-bay and some Wyatt-style timber sash windows to east-bay. Original wrought-iron balconettes to first floor of south elevation. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with masonry Doric doorcase comprising square-headed door opening flanked by half-fluted Doric columns supporting panelled lintel entablature and original cobwebbed fanlight. Original timber panelled door with eleven raised-and-fielded panels and brass door furniture opening onto granite platform and granite steps from street. Platform and basement enclosed by original wrought- and cast-iron railings set on granite plinth wall. Steel steps provide access to basement. Forming part of a continuous terrace of former townhouses lining north side of Fitzwilliam Square. Rendered wall and recent timber gates to south boundary on Pembroke Lane.

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_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.