house

Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1810, having multiple recent extensions to rear (south) elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof having parapet with granite capping to front elevation. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening having replacement uPVC door and fanlight. Garden to front enclosed by replacement metal railings on rendered plinth, with rendered piers having rendered stone capping.

Addressing Dublin’s Grand Canal, this house forms part of a terrace which was built shortly after the construction of the canal in 1796. The terrace was built on lands belonging to the Earl of Meath, beside the river Poddle and the Greenmount Spinning Manufactory which was built in 1808. This land had been the site of a corn mill since the mid-eighteenth century. The houses in the terrace exhibit a well-designed and well-executed early suburban architecture. The quality of materials, and composition and scale of the houses create a pleasing coherent design, making a positive architectural contribution to the street and to the setting of the Grand Canal.