Leo Fitzgerald House

Freestanding L-plan multiple-bay four-storey social housing block, built c. 1940, having attached stairs tower to east elevation. Flat roof concealed behind rendered parapet with concrete coping, and having rendered chimneystacks with concrete copings and clay pots. Flemish bond brown brick and rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with rendered surrounds and sills, and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door openings with rendered surrounds and timber doors to galleries. Square-headed door opening in attached stairs tower with mild-steel double-leaf gate, concrete platform and steps. Statue of Sacred Heart to south elevation.

The social housing block was designed by Herbert Simms, housing architect for Dublin Corporation 1932-48. It is a pared-back composition with two simple galleried blocks and is typical of his later works. The combination of brown brick and smooth rendered walls provides textural variation. The name commemorates a local resident killed during the Civil War.