Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

house — O'Connell Street

house
View what I want to do
house — O'Connell Street
Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Open the original picture · Website use allowed for educational or private purposes with source credit · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.
Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

Terraced three-bay four-storey over basement house, built c. 1825, and distinguished by a three-centred door opening and doorcase, which is broadly similar to the remaining houses on the terrace, with which it shares a relatively uniform fenestration arrangement and parapet height. M-profile pitched roof concealed behind a parapet wall. Large return to rear. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls, laid in Flemish bond with cement re-pointing. Rebuilt parapet wall with reset limestone coping and lead damp course beneath. Tooled limestone ashlar basement elevation, terminating at ground floor level with a smooth limestone ashlar plinth course. Partially visible red brick rear elevation laid in Flemish bond, with limestone coping to parapet wall. Fire esacpe attached to rear. Square-headed window openings, red brick flat-arched, patent rendered reveals, limestone sills, and replacement uPVC windows. Sill level of one opening at ground floor level dropped to form door opening, accessed by metal landing off principal front door area. Three-centred arch door opening, red brick arch, patent rendered reveals, and inset doorcase on limestone plinth comprising: three-quarters engaged Composite columns, flanking central raised and fielded panelled timber door leaf and frosted glass sidelights on plain plinth bases, and joined above by diminutive entablature which breaks forward over orders and sidelights, with fluted frieze with medallions, and modillion cornice. Radiating fanlight above. Door opens onto limestone flagged front door platform accessed from public pavement by five limestone steps, with cast-iron bootscraper, and flanked by limestone plinth walls supporting wrought-iron railings with spike finials, and cast-iron rail posts with pineapple finials. To rear site lane is an original coach house, with squared and coursed limestone elevation, and bricked up square-headed loft window opening, and crudely enlarged vehicular opening at ground floor level incorporating original coach entrance and window.

This official record and map point do not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.