Selection of 35mm slides from the collection of the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, focusing on the domestic architecture of eighteenth-century Dublin.

Henrietta Street, No. 7: stairhall ceiling

Henrietta Street, No. 10: ceiling of chapel

Marlborough Street, Tyrone House: ceiling of saloon

Henrietta Street, Nos. 5-6: ceiling of front parlour (detail)

Henrietta Street, Nos. 5-6: ceiling of front parlour

Kildare Street, No. 45: ceiling of stairhall

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

St. Stephen's Green, No. 9: ceiling of saloon

Dominick Street Lower, No. 20: ceiling of stairhall (detail)

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

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

St. Stephen's Green, No. 9: ceiling of saloon (detail)

St. Stephen's Green, No. 17: ceiling of front drawing room

Dominick Street Lower, No. 20: 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.

The street was laid out by Luke Gardiner in 1729-30. Originally a single five-bay house. Built by Nathaniel Clements for Henry, 8th Earl of Thomond (d.1741). First resident (in 1743) was Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough.

The house was built in c1760 for Usher St George, created Lord St George in 1763. The plasterwork is attributed to Robert West.

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.

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.

Plasterwork by Barthelemij Cramillion 1755-57.

Plasterwork by Barthelemij Cramillion 1755-57.

Plasterwork by Barthelemij Cramillion 1755-57.

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

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.

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

Plasterwork by Barthelemij Cramillion 1755-57.

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.

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.

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.

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.

No. 85 St Stephen's Green now forms part of Newman House (together with No. 86 St Stephen's Green). It was built for Captain Hugh Montgomery from 1738. This slide shows a detail from the saloon ceiling prior to the conservation and restoration project undertaken in 1989-93. The decorative plasterwork is attributed to Paolo and Filippo Lafranchini. Source material for the design of the figurative components are largely derived from engravings after paintings by the C17 French artist Simon Vouet.

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.

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.

Planned by Sir William Chambers in 1775 but not executed under his direction. Plasterwork by the firm of Michael Stapleton.

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.