Kildare Street, No. 45: ceiling of stairhall


Also known as Doneraile House. Built in 1753 to designs by John Ensor for the Hon. Hayes St Leger, later 4th Viscount Doneraile.

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Henrietta Street, No. 11: service staircase (construction detail)


The house was built by Luke Gardiner and leased respectively to Henry Boyle, Earl of Shannon. Design in part attributed to Sir Edward Lovett Pearce.

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St Stephen's Green, No. 86: stairhall from first floor landing


No. 86 St Stephen's Green now forms part of Newman House (together with No. 85 St Stephen's Green). It was built for Richard Chapel Whaley from 1765. The design of the house and its stuccoed interiors are attributed to Robert West. A major conservation and restoration project undertaken in 1989-93.

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Kildare Street, No. 45: first floor landing


Also known as Doneraile House. Built in 1753 to designs by John Ensor for the Hon. Hayes St Leger, later 4th Viscount Doneraile.

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St Stephen's Green, No. 17: stairhall, view to first floor landing


St Stephen's Green laid out as residential square by Dublin Corporation in 1664. Largely built during the first half of the C18. No. 17 built 1776-79 by Gustavus Hume for Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown. Decorated by the Dublin stuccodore Michael Stapleton: drawings for the interiors form part of the Stapleton Collection at the National Library of Ireland.

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Great Denmark Street, No. 3: plaster tympanum


House built on ground leased to James Higgins, bricklayer c1768-9. Formerly part of the Mount Eccles estate.

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St Stephen's Green, No. 86: ceiling of stairhall


No. 86 St Stephen's Green now forms part of Newman House (together with No. 85 St Stephen's Green). It was built for Richard Chapel Whaley from 1765. The design of the house and its stuccoed interiors are attributed to Robert West. A major conservation and restoration project undertaken in 1989-93.

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St Stephen's Green, No. 17: stairhall, view towards rear of house


St Stephen's Green laid out as residential square by Dublin Corporation in 1664. Largely built during the first half of the C18. No. 17 built 1776-79 by Gustavus Hume for Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown. Decorated by the Dublin stuccodore Michael Stapleton: drawings for the interiors form part of the Stapleton Collection at the National Library of Ireland.

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Henrietta Street, No. 7: staircase


This was Nathaniel Clement's residence, built between 1739-43. Double-height stair hall.

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Belvedere House: ceiling plasterwork (detail)


Begun in 1765 and completed in 1786 for George Augustus Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere. Designs for the interiors are contained in the Stapleton collection of drawings in the National Library of Ireland.

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St Stephen's Green, No. 86: stairhall from first floor landing


No. 86 St Stephen's Green now forms part of Newman House (together with No. 85 St Stephen's Green). It was built for Richard Chapel Whaley from 1765. The design of the house and its stuccoed interiors are attributed to Robert West. A major conservation and restoration project undertaken in 1989-93.

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Henrietta Street, No. 7: stairhall ceiling


This was Nathaniel Clement's residence, built between 1739-43. Double-height stair hall.

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St Stephen's Green, No. 9: figurative stucco panel in stairhall


Built c1756 for the Rev. Cutts Harman, Dean of Waterford. Now the St Stephen's Green Club. The decorative plasterwork is attributed to Paolo Lafranchini, given its similarity to comparable work executed by him at Castletown, Co. Kildare in 1759. This panel depicts the metamorphosis of Antigone by Juno.

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Blue Coat School (Law Society of Ireland): stairhall


Blue Coat School (Law Society of Ireland): stairhall

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Dominick Street Lower, No. 20: ceiling of stairhall


House built by Robert West, stuccodore and developer, on ground leased to him in 1758 by Usher St George. House sold in 1760 to the Hon. Robert Marshall, a justice in the Court of Common Pleas.

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Merrion Square, No. 73: staircase window


Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Leases for the south side were issued from 1786.

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Henrietta Street, No. 9: stairhall, party wall


Design is attributed to Sir Edward Lovett Pearce. Plan and façade a close transcription of No. 30 Old Burlington Street, London, designed by Lord Burlington and Colen Campbell for Algernon Coote, Lord Mountrath.

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Rotunda Hospital: staircase


Rotunda Hospital: staircase

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St Stephen's Green, No. 17: stairhall, general view of upper storey


St Stephen's Green laid out as residential square by Dublin Corporation in 1664. Largely built during the first half of the C18. No. 17 built 1776-79 by Gustavus Hume for Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown. Decorated by the Dublin stuccodore Michael Stapleton: drawings for the interiors form part of the Stapleton Collection at the National Library of Ireland.

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Marlborough Street, Tyrone House: stairhall


Designed in 1740 by Richard Castle for Marcus Beresford, Viscount Tyrone. Plasterwork in the stair hall is attributed to Lafranchini stuccodores.

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Ely House: first floor vestibule


Residence of Henry Loftus, 3rd Earl of Ely. The ceiling of this vestibule is decorated to designs by James 'Athenian' Stuart, who had provided designs for the earl's country seat, Rathfarnham Castle, in 1769.

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Henrietta Street, No. 7: staircase (detail)


This was Nathaniel Clement's residence, built between 1739-43. Double-height stair hall.

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St Stephen's Green, No. 56: tympanum at first floor landing


The house was built in c1760 for Usher St George, created Lord St George in 1763. The plasterwork is attributed to Robert West. Elements of its iconography derive from engravings after the French C18 artists Francois Boucher and Claude Audran.

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St Stephen's Green, No. 17: ceiling of stairhall


St Stephen's Green laid out as residential square by Dublin Corporation in 1664. Largely built during the first half of the C18. No. 17 built 1776-79 by Gustavus Hume for Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown. Decorated by the Dublin stuccodore Michael Stapleton: drawings for the interiors form part of the Stapleton Collection at the National Library of Ireland.

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