22 Kilmorey Street

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Left of a pair of three-storey Georgian town houses, symmetrically arranged about a shared coach arch and directly fronting the street. This building is two bays wide. It has a gabled natural slate roof, with coped verges, rendered chimney at left, ogee cast-iron gutters, and metal down pipe at left.

The walls to the street façade are cement rendered and lined, and have stepped stucco quoins at left end. Projecting granite cill course to first floor windows, with rendered platband under. Two granite steps lead up to a modern painted timber front door at right (with four- raised and fielded panels). Door surround of vee-jointed ashlar granite with segmental head containing wrought iron fanlight; right jamb shared with coach arch. Left of door is a single 8/8 sliding sash window. At first floor are two 6/6 sashes, in line with ground floor openings. At second floor are two 6/3 sashes, in line with those below. All windows have granite cills. These upper windows form part of a regularly spaced composition across the block as a whole.

At front is a reproduction metal railing with urn-topped posts on a chamfered granite plinth. The railings return alongside entrance steps.

Right gable is abutted by mirror-image building. Left gable is abutted by a lower building; exposed section of wall cement rendered.

Walls at rear are also smooth rendered in cement. A modern flat-roofed one-storey link block abuts at right. At left is a 6/6 sliding sash window at half landing between ground and first floors, and one above between first and second floors. A 6/6 sash window lights each back room on the upper floors. Rainwater down pipe at right.

In rear yard is a two-storey outhouse contiguous with that to adjoining premises. It is in random rubble granite, part rendered. It has a pitched natural slate roof (partly replaced with transparent plastic sheeting). Part of the wall has been extended forward to enable the roof to marry in with the link block noted above.

Historical information

Not shown on 1835 map. First cited in 1863 valuation, indicating a mid-19th century construction date, being erected simultaneously with no.24 (HB 16/30/013b). Recorded as three storeys high.

Primary Sources:

1. OS 6" map, 3rd edition PRONI OS 9/15/1/3.
2. Valuation revision books, 1866-1930, PRONI VAL 2B/3/69K, p.287.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
H-. Alterations detracting from building
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Left of a pair of three-storey Georgian town houses, symmetrically arranged about a shared coach arch and directly fronting the street. This building and that adjoining combine to form a well-proportioned classical composition. Their scale and prominent corner location enhance make them significant in the street.