Land parcel 5491337

Area

290 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 536 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

• 12 Sept 2022Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of (a) the fit-out of the interior for retail purposes including the removal of existing modern fit-out partitions and fixed furniture; (b) the installation of new retail fit- out partitions and fixed furniture; (c) the installation of new connecting staircase from ground to first floor level replacing a modern staircase; (d) the upgrading of services provision & fire rated floors and walls within the building; (e) the replacement of existing retail signage within the signage area above the glazed shop windows with new simplified signage, and (f) a new disc logo sign affixed to the front elevation of the building.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4822/22

• 29 Aug 2022Application declared inva

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of (a) the fit-out of the interior for retail purposes including the removal of existing modern fit-out partitions and fixed furniture; (b) the installation of new retail fit- out partitions and fixed furniture; (c) the installation of new connecting staircase from ground to first floor level replacing a modern staircase; (d) the upgrading of services provision & fire rated floors and walls within the building; (e) the replacement of existing retail signage within the signage area above the glazed shop windows with new simplified signage, and (f) a new disc logo sign affixed to the front elevation of the building.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4744/22

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

• Shop/retail outlet, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited attached gable-fronted four-bay four-storey commercial building with attic accommodation, built c. 1890, with identical gabled elevation fronting onto Chatham Street, extending further two bays to west, abutted by an additional two-bay two-storey block to far west. Remodelled as bank c. 1930. Now in commercial retail use. Pitched natural slate roofs with terracotta ridge combe tiles, terracotta hip ridge tiles and copper valleys. Front (east) pile set behind slightly raised gables with moulded terracotta coping and ball finials. Two large red brick chimneystacks (partially rebuilt) to north party wall and further intact profiled red brick chimneystack to west elevation. Cast-iron hoppers and downpipes to eaves with decorative brackets to downpipes. Red brick walls laid in Dutch bond with moulded terracotta stringcourses. Generally deep set square-headed window openings with decorative voussoired terracotta lintels, continuous moulded terracotta sill courses and original bipartite timber casement windows with leaded upper panes. Both gables have paired square-headed window openings with decorative brick and terracotta surrounds and elaborate terracotta foliate panels filling attic gables. Third floor windows set within corbelled recesses and fronted by terracotta balustrades. First and second floor windows set within double-height breakfront framed by brick pilasters having scrolled brackets to base and above second floor supporting brick and terracotta entablature. Below all first and second floor windows elaborate terracotta foliate apron panels. Plainly detailed window openings to two blocks abutting to west. Replacement glazed shopfront with modified terracotta surround framed by brick pilasters with scrolled console brackets and dentillated cornice. Principal elevation (east) fronts onto Grafton Street, south elevation fronts north-side of Chatham Street, abutted by two-storey red brick block to west (50920056).

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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3207 (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.