Land parcel 5609164

Area

347 m²

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 545 m².

Zoning

O2 Z8: Georgian Conservation Areas (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
M2 Z5: City Centre (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 3 Feb 2020Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Permission for proposed interior fit-out and alterations to the internal ground floor layout.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2193/20

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 2 recorded monuments.

• DU018-020535 Graveyard
  Description

  The Huguenot Graveyard at No. 10 Merrion Row has a date stone of 1673 on the gateway (Dublin Public Libraries 1990, 41).

• DU018-020646 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  The Shelbourne Hotel replaced the 17th century residence of William Petty (Somerville-Large 1996, 102). No visible trace.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1740–1870 · National interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay three-storey former house over basement with attic storey, built 1745, modified externally c. 1860. Double mansard natural slate roofs aligned perpendicular to street, with perpendicular M-profile pitched returns to rear and closet return to south. Flemish bond brown brick parapet with masonry copings (concealed by vegetation). Brown brick chimneystack to north end with clay pots, and rendered gable chimneystack to return. Concealed gutters and replacement uPVC downpipes. Flemish bond brown brick walls with splayed granite plinth, partially painted rendered walls to basement and painted rendering to rear elevation. Round-headed dormer windows with flat roofs on console brackets, having timber casement frames; square-headed window openings elsewhere, diminishing in height to upper floors, having decorative lugged rendered architraves, plain rendered reveals to basement and painted granite sills. Timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane to basement and top floor and one-over-one pane elsewhere, having cast-iron window-guards to second floor. Painted pedimented Gibbsian doorcase with stepped keystone, block-and-start architrave, flat console brackets, guttae, triangular pediment, egg and dart moulding and monogram, and six-panel timber door with brass door furniture. Concrete platform bridging basement with four concrete steps, and decorative cast-iron railings enclosing basement area, with finials and standing on moulded granite plinth wall. Replacement timber battened door accesses basement interior below bridged platform. Interior has two principal rooms and closet alongside two-storey entrance and stairs hall compartment, and has service stairs and small room to rear. Stairs hall has chequered stone-tile flooring, timber closed-string open-well staircase, quarter-pace landings, three fine turned balusters to each tread, carved ramped handrail, and carved tread ends; fielded wall-linings, decorative 1740s plasterwork ceiling, and deep dentillated moulded Ionic cornice. First floor principal room to north also has 1740s plasterwork ceiling, Ionic cornice, marble chimneypiece and fielded wainscoting. Good chimneypieces and fielded wainscoting throughout remaining rooms.

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.