Land parcel 5617141

Area

77 m²

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 852 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

• 18 Sept 2024Grant permission

  The development will consist of:• Change of use of the upper floor levels (second floor, third floor and fourth floor level) of Nos. 4-5 Grafton Street to residential use (315 sqm); • The construction of a single storey roof top extension (42 sqm) at No. 5 Grafton Street; • The proposed unit mix is as follows: 2 no. 1 bedroom units and 2 no. 3 bedroom units; • Change of use of circulation areas serving the proposed units at ground floor (10 sqm) and first floor (17 sqm) levels within No. 5 Grafton Street to residential use; • The provision of private open space in the form of a terrace at roof level of No. 5 Grafton Street to serve Unit 5b; • The provision of a new external fire stair to the rear of No. 5 Grafton Street; • Relocation of existing telecommunications at roof level: • All associated site works to facilitate the development.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB2153/24

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, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay four-storey commercial building, built 1902 as one of unequal pair, with recent replacement shopfront, and south bay set back with passage entry access to ground floor; fully abutted to rear. Hipped slate roof, except for south bay which is flat, all concealed by red sandstone parapet with moulded cornice and frieze detailed with swags and panels carved with paterae. Concealed rainwater goods. Flemish bond orange brick walling, with giant pilasters to sides and projecting section. Square-headed openings to top floor with plain brick reveals, slightly projecting key blocks, flush sandstone sills, and mullion-and-transom casement windows; first and second floors lit to projecting section by full-width double-height glazed oriel corbelled out from shopfront fascia, with original glazing configuration retained and having mullion-and-transom multiple-pane timber-framed casement windows with leaded and stained upper panes, canted central section and decorative apron panels, fluted frieze with roundels, topped by cornice and segmental pediment, and having dentillated cornice; first and second floor openings to south bay have similar decorative treatment, with single mullion-and-transom casement windows with triangular pediments. Side elevation has six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with plain reveals; other openings altered for nightclub use.

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_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.