English Language Tutorial Academy — Burgh Quay

The saved account records: Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former house and shop, built c.1820, having shopfront to front (north) elevation.

The saved account records: Pitched slate roof with flat roof to rear, behind cut granite parapet with carved granite cornice, shared brown brick chimney with clay pots.

The saved account records: Red brick, laid in Flemish bond to upper wall to front, cut granite platband over ashlar granite to ground floor, cast-iron bracket and arm to first floor.

The saved account records: Shopfront comprising carved granite arcade having central elliptical-headed opening flanked by round-headed openings, panelled pilasters supporting carved architraves, platband at impost level, recent fascia to entablature, smooth rendered walls to basement.

English Language Tutorial Academy — Burgh Quay matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This house, along with its neighbours to the west, were designed to the standard of the Wide Street Commission. They were built, in the early nineteenth century, when Burgh Quay was constructed on land which had been cleared to connect Aston Quay and George's Quay. As well as a residence over the shop, this building was used as a fish merchants', corn merchants’ and shipping broker’s office, attesting to the significance of the quays to adjacent commercial activity, and to the commercial heart of Dublin. The retention of the stone entablature and arcaded shopfront, is replicated on some of the neighbouring… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.