O'Connell House

Terraced three-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, c.1780. Renovated, c.1880, with render façade enrichments added. Renovated, c.1990, to accommodate use as guesthouse. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, replacement square rooflight, c.1990, and cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with render façade enrichments, c.1880, including quoined pier, and moulded cornice on elongated brackets. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and moulded rendered shouldered surrounds, c.1880, to ground floor. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990. Segmental-headed door opening approached by shared flight of four cut-limestone steps with cut-stone engaged Doric doorcase, timber panelled door, and overlight having moulded rendered surround. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

This house is an attractive middle-size composition of balanced proportions that is distinguished by a fine Doric doorcase and subtle render façade enrichments. The house, despite conversion to an alternative use, retains most of its original form and some of its original character, although the visual appeal of the composition is not enhanced by the inappropriate replacement fenestration. The house, together with the house of identical treatment immediately to south-east (22500307/WD-5632-16-304), is an integral component of the streetscape at this point of O’Connell Street, forming part of a group of Classically-inspired eighteenth-century townhouses.