Land parcel 5950385

Area

2,877 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 5,147 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

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

• Independent House, office, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced seven-bay five-storey commercial building,built c.1935, as extension to Independent House to east. Currently empty. Flat roof set behind granite ashlar parapet wall with steel railing. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond arranged in giant pilasters from first to third floors with slightly advanced end bays and deep moulded dentillated granite cornice over third floor. Yellow brick walls to rear elevation, red brick walls to west side elevation. Square-headed window openings to top floor with granite architrave surrounds, stepped granite keystones and replacement uPVC windows. Recessed bays to first, second and third floors arranged vertically with granite ashlar surrounds and apron panels with some original multiple-pane steel casement windows and some replacement uPVC windows. Channel rusticated granite walls to ground floor with full-span granite cornice and plinth course. Square-headed window and door openings with granite architrave surrounds, boarded up windows and double-leaf timber doors with raised-and-fielded panels and rectangular overlights.

• Independent House, office, 1920–1925 · National interest
  Description

  Terraced symmetrical nine-bay four-storey neoclassical office building with attic, built 1924, to designs of Robert Donnelly. Flat roof with slate mansard type front pitch having copper-clad dormers and decorative copper panelled parapet with iron railing over. Slate domical vaulted roofs to advanced end bays with deep moulded copper ribs, decorative copper oval dormers and octagonal copper finials with flag poles. Square-profile cast-iron gutter over attic storey with decorative cast-iron hoppers and downpipes breaking through front elevation. Machine-made red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to first and second floors, channel rusticated Portland stone to ground floor with coursed granite ashlar plinth course, rock-faced to advanced end bays and surmounted by platband with diamond-faced blocks. Central five bays framed by engaged giant Doric order Portland stone columns rising from first floor and supporting full-span dentillated and modillioned entablature below third floor. Applied bronze lettering to frieze stating 'Sunday Independent' to west advanced bay, 'Irish Independent' to central section and 'Evening Herald' to east advanced bay. Projecting Art Deco-style bronze clock to centre of façade. Square-headed window openings with geometric Portland stone architrave surrounds, steel casement windows with margined lights and brick aprons between first and second floors. First floor windows to either end bays have stepped cornices supported on brackets of strapped fasces. Third floor windows to end bays are flanked by bay-leaf drop finials. Large bronze-framed display windows to ground floor with bronze panelled surrounds and bronze sill guards. Hardwood windows to advanced end bays with postal slots to east bay and secondary door opening to west bay having double-leaf timber panelled doors and stone lintel. Inset central square-headed door opening with replacement double-leaf timber panelled doors, original rectangular overlight and four granite steps. Decorative Portland stone doorcase comprises architrave surround flanked by large panelled piers with Greek key capitals rising from granite plinths supporting full Doric entablature with discs to metopes and surmounted by blocking course with framed panel and brass lettering stating 'Independent Newspapers Limited'. Rendered five-bay three-storey, concrete-framed structure to rear, previously used as loading bays with roller shutter doors opening onto Princes Street North, pitched roof, dentillated eaves and replacement uPVC windows.

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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3206 (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.