42 Manor Street is a four-storey over basement three-bay house located in a terrace of buildings on Manor St. The early origins and design history are unknown. It is likely that the house was built c. 1735-1750 and it was most likely built for the Stanley family, the proprietors of Grangegorman, on whose lands the house was built at that time.
It is a protected structure, entered on the RPS Ref: 4883. It has been surveyed under the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage completed in 2016, Reg No: 50070077, rated as being of ‘Regional Significance’ and cited as being of ‘Architectural, Artistic, Social’.
The house was altered in the 18th and 19th centuries from its original form – a double gabled front with corner fireplaces – to its present parapet front. It was used as a Police Barracks during the 19th C.
It presents itself in a dominant manner to a significant urban space and has an associated civic importance on account of its position and size relative to the streetscape of upper Manor Street, being one of the earlier buildings on this terrace.
The red brick façade to Manor Street was refaced in the nineteenth century, and the building was also reroofed. These developments may have taken place when the building was acquired by the Dublin Metropolitan Police c.1870.
It came into the ownership of Dublin City Council in 1930 when it was converted to use as tenement housing. Subsequently, Dublin City Council vacated the building and entered into a 99-year lease from 1997 with our clients, a community organisation.
Kelly and Cogan Architects were appointed in 2004 to act as conservation architects and design team leaders for the conservation, restoration and refurbishment of No. 42 as a headquarters for a number of community organisations under the aegis of the Phoenix Trust.
Prior to this, the building had fallen into dilapidation and had been severely compromised both structurally and in terms of its architectural integrity, by a series of 20th century alterations and by neglect, the worst impact of which was arrested by a series of small but critical repair projects carried out by the Trust in 1998.
No. 42 retains much of its 18th century detailing including brickwork, stonework, windows (both flush frame and concealed frame behind reveal), internal panelling, architraves, shutters, skirtings, plasterwork (both decorative and moulded cornices), ironwork, ironmongery etc. It ranks as an outstanding example of 18th century residential architecture.
The conservation and restoration works were completed in late 2010.
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Manor Street, Dublin 7 |
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Date Of Construction |
c.1735 |
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The Phoenix Trust |
Location: Manor Street, Dublin 7
Date Of Construction: c. 1735
Client: The Phoenix Trust
