Obsessions — Capel Street

The saved account records: Terraced two-bay four-storey former house, possibly built c.1710.

The saved account records: Refaced c.1960, with apartments to upper floors and commercial use to ground floor, with replacement timber shopfront.

The saved account records: Replacement hipped slate roof with angled ridge and hip tiles, concealed by rendered parapet with granite coping.

The saved account records: Unpainted rendered walling to upper floors.

Obsessions — Capel Street matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Dublin Civic Trust's 'Survey of Gable-Fronted and Other Early Buildings of Dublin' states, 'Despite the unassuming mid twentieth-century appearance of this building, the façade is documented to conceal an important early eighteenth-century house behind, likely the large plot depicted by Rocque in 1756.' Together with the neighbouring building, the pair is an interesting addition to the street's historic character. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.