Land parcel 6111393

Area

808 m²

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 593 m².

Zoning

R2 Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
O2 Z8: Georgian Conservation Areas (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 3 Jun 2020Grant permission and rete

  PERMISSION & RETENTION: PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Planning permission and permission for retention at No. 17 Denzille Lane, Dublin 2, within the curtilage of a protected structure, No. 17 Merrion Square North, Dublin 2, and at No. 16 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, a protected structure. The development will consist of modifications to the previously permitted development (Dublin City Council Reg Ref 2140/18) to include: (1) modifications to previously permitted north east boundary/party wall elevation facing Denzille Lane to 1(i) reinstate original pedestrian entrance gate and 1(ii) modifications to design of previously permitted timber vehicular gate, signage and 1 (iii) retention of recessed mini pillar for electrical service provider, (2) modification to previously permitted north west boundary/party wall with No. 16 Merrion Square North to comprise 2(i) replacement of section of modern concrete block boundary circa 7m long with random rubble wall to match existing, also to include 2(ii) a linear zinc cladding to top of wall to conceal restraining beams and a hidden gutter with 2(iii) a raised section to accommodate an existing lean-to shelter to No. 16 Merrion Square North for the extent of the permitted gable, (3) modifications to previously permitted north east elevation to entrance forecourt to include 3(i) glazed entrance door at ground floor in place of solid door & circa 1.5m2 additional floor area to ground floor entrance corridor, 3(ii) glazed panels in place of solid panels at first, second, third and fourth floor access windows to balconies, (4) modifications to previously permitted south west elevation to include 4(i) glazed panel in place of solid panels at second, third and fourth floor and 4(ii) inclusion of steel columns to balconies on second and third floors (5) inclusion of 2no. utility meter cabinets into entrance forecourt, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2805/20

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

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

Architectural heritage

• House, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1770, rear having one-storey over basement return with further small addition to house end, and fire escape stairs. Now in use as offices. Slate roof, pitched to front part, behind brick parapet with granite coping, and rear having hipped lean-to roof to east and hipped roof to west. Shouldered brick chimneystacks to party walls with clay pots, and with cast-iron rainwater goods to west. Flemish bond red brick walls over granite stringcourse, with rusticated granite walls to ground floor and rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with raised rendered reveals, painted granite sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to basement, ground and second floors, nine-over-nine pane to first floor and three-over-three to top floor. Round-headed entrance doorway with granite surround, frieze and cornice, peacock's tail fanlight and eight-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite platform with three granite bull-nosed steps. Wrought-iron railings enclosing basement area with decorative wrought and cast-iron corner posts on moulded granite plinth. Cast-iron coal-hole covers set in granite flags to footpath. Entrance hall and stair halls have tiled floors, moulded dado rails and egg-and-dart plasterwork cornices; entrance hall has plaster ceiling rose, square-headed door openings with lugged and kneed architraves and timber panelled doors; stairs hall has timber open-string staircase with turned balusters and mahogany handrail; first floor landing has round-headed recess to square-headed doorway, flanked by pilasters with ornate capitals and archivolt with inset lugged and kneed timber surround with timber six-panel door having Rococo plasterwork to tympanum; ground floor rooms have deep timber skirtings, chair rails, chimneybreasts to west wall, and timber lugged-and-kneed architraves to panelled doors, windows have lugged and kneed surrounds, panelled shutters and egg-and-dart cornice; first floor rooms have deep timber skirtings, chair rails, chimneybreasts (marble to west wall), square-headed doorways with reeded or lugged and kneed architraves and panelled doors, Rococo plasterwork ceilings, dentillated cornice to front room, coved cornice to rear. Return has engaged Corinthian columns supporting dentillated cornice with lunette window above and inset with square-headed doorway having panelled pilasters with decorative capitals, guilloche decoration to frieze, moulded cornice and six-panel door; round-headed window to west side with panelled reveals; whole approached by segmental archway with clustered pilasters having dentillated capitals and decorative spandrels.

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.